svn commit: r250565 - head/etc

Eitan Adler eadler at freebsd.org
Sun May 12 21:28:15 UTC 2013


On 12 May 2013 11:54, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck at rinet.ru> 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.
>
> Do you have any estimation chart on different CPUs and architectures?

I tend to be of the opinion that defaults can be changed...

... but by request I reverted this change.

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Eitan Adler
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