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Date:      Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:35:32 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc newsyslog.conf
Message-ID:  <20020912193532.GA21745@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3D80D22F.B7BDF10E@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200209121728.g8CHS7An013425@freefall.freebsd.org> <3D80D22F.B7BDF10E@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:43:11PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> "David E. O'Brien" wrote:
> >=20
> > obrien      2002/09/12 10:28:07 PDT
> >=20
> >   Modified files:
> >     etc                  newsyslog.conf
> >   Log:
> >   Use bzip2 instead of gzip for those logs we compress.
> >=20
> >   Basic idea agreed to by:        rwatson
>=20
> Is this really necessary? bzip2 is much more CPU/memory hungry, so
> that this change could really bite low-end machines.

It's only a default..it can trivially be changed.  Compressing
logfiles is only done infrequently anyway, so it's not a heavy system
load.

> What's the gain?

Smaller logfiles, obviously.

Kris

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