tags 642592 wontfix thanks Am 24.09.2011 11:46, schrieb Gergely Nagy: > Jérôme <[email protected]> writes: > >> I think that log files compression lowers the system performance on desktop >> computers which have now enough disk space for storing old logs. > > Desktop computers also have enough CPU power (and compared to that, > negligible log volume) to do compression at log rotate time. It can > still turned off when not wanted, but defaults should be conservative. > > As someone operating a couple of servers with low disk space, and high > volume of logs, I very much like the default (even though I'm not using > rsyslog - but the same settings should be applied for all syslogds > present in Debian anyway).
Agreed. I think the current default is fine and I don't plan to change that. If you run rsyslog on a busy server, /var/log/ can fill up pretty quickly. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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