[syslog-ng]file compression

Balazs Scheidler syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:14:06 +0100


On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 03:29, Timothy Webster wrote:
> I noticed that file compression is not currently implemented in syslog-ng 1.6.5.
> Is file compression expected in the near future. I need integrated file
> compression because writing from syslog, then reading to compress then writing the compressed
> data is killing my disk io. 1 write, 1 read, ~1/3 write

Sorry, not currently.

> 
> If anybody has got something in cvs let me know.
> I am interested in lzo compression rather then bz2 or z(gzip).
> lzo it is about 1/2 space efficient as z, but it is also about 4 times faster.
> Which suits my needs of realtime compression better.

Are there any libz-like libraries for your proposed algorithm?

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Bazsi