20 Oct
2012
20 Oct
'12
7:05 a.m.
Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
It seems to me that the default log compression has more problems than benefits with today's technology. It made a lot of sense when 1G was a big hard drive, but nowadays a 60G SSD is about as small as you can buy.
The old log files are eventually deleted (under standard configurations), hence conserving storage need not be the highest priority. For very high-traffic servers, one simply needs appropriately sized storage for /var, or, alternatively, remote logging.