Re: Log Rotating Script/Utility

>>>Graham Toal said:
 --> > Squid already has built-in log rotate function, but it doesn't
 --> > support compression.
...
 --> and made a big win in disk space. I can't see any reason why cached files
 --> on a squid server can't be compressed too, and decompressed on the fly as
 --> they're read from disk. This would only apply to compressible files - graphics
 --> probably excepted - but it would be an interesting statistic to know how
 --> much of the data in a squid cache is compressible. Anyone have an inactive
 --> cache image they can compress to see what savings they get?

I wonder whether this gains anything. According to our stats HTML docs (primary
target of compression) are only 6% of the total turnover in bytes.

\rho
Received on Mon Jun 09 1997 - 01:58:25 MDT