Jérôme <jerome.bo...@wanadoo.fr> writes: > Most of the time I think that log files compression lowers the system > performance on desktop computers which have now enough disk space for > storing old logs.
I really doubt there is any noticable effect on a desktop system where the size of the logs is relatively small. I think log compression usually makes little difference on non-server systems (and is quite valuable on server machines, which both generate much more logs and which are often on VMs with very limited disk available). When it does make a difference is when some process goes insane and logs tons of similar lines, at which point the compression allows one to retain such logs without much impact, which I think is valuable. > I think that files compression is a good tradeoff only in case the > compressed files have a longer lifetime than the log files (i. e. man > pages, fonts, Debian packages, ...). For the other cases, the > compression should result from good judgment. The maintainer's judgement is what the compression policy is already left to. So far as I know, there isn't any requirement in Debian Policy that rotated log files be compressed; there certainly isn't in 10.8. There is an example of a logrotate configuration file that happens to compress the log files, but that's an example, not a normative requirement. Unless you want to argue that Policy should require logs *not* be compressed (which I personally don't think is wise), I don't think there's anything in Policy to change here. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
