svn commit: r250565 - head/etc

[Pedro Giffuni]

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.