Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 16:03:11 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> To: Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r250565 - head/etc Message-ID: <5190038F.6000609@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <518FFA4B.9080505@freebsd.org> References: <201305121523.r4CFNxBR055568@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305121952120.44610@woozle.rinet.ru> <518FFA4B.9080505@freebsd.org>
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On 05/12/2013 15:23, Matthew Jacob wrote: > On 5/12/2013 8:54 AM, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: >> On Sun, 12 May 2013, Eitan Adler wrote: >> >>> Author: eadler >>> Date: Sun May 12 15:23:59 2013 >>> New Revision: 250565 >>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/250565 >>> >>> Log: >>> Make newsyslog compress logs with xz instead of bzip2 to save space. >> While it may be useful for contemporary x64 machines, where CPU power >> is not an >> issue, I'm afraid it could produce more harm than goodness on old >> hardware >> and/or other architectures like arm. >> >> > +1 +1 BTW, there are some nice BSD licensed compression utilities nowadays (snappy, lz4) that make more emphasis on performance without being bad at all with compression. Pedro. _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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