Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:55:54 +1000 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc newsyslog.conf Message-ID: <20020913105554.A26167@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20020912234740.GB99846@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 04:47:40PM -0700 References: <200209121728.g8CHS7An013425@freefall.freebsd.org> <3D80D22F.B7BDF10E@FreeBSD.org> <20020912234740.GB99846@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 04:47:40PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:43:11PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Is this really necessary? bzip2 is much more CPU/memory hungry, so > > that this change could really bite low-end machines. What's the gain? > > How much more CPU and memory? If you are worrying about the difference > in CPU and memory I assume you're still running Netscape version 1. > > This is a default that can be changed by the embedded community. The > gain is smaller log files and the ability to remove a GPL'ed binary from > the system with out breaking things. (there are still uses of gzip, but > we are one step closer...) OpenBSD's compress(1) can handle gzip files using zlib and is designed to act as a drop-in replacement for most uses of gzip... there are some issues with it, though, and it's not turned on by default. Still, this might be something to look at if you're interested in removing gzip from the base system. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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