gzip, bzip2 and xz

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Jesper,
I did get reading xz compressed argus files into the distribution, (was actually trivial)
and it will be in argus-clients-3.0.7.18.tar.gz, which should go up later tomorrow.

Hope all is most excellent,

Carter 

On Nov 19, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Jesper Skou Jensen <jesper.skou.jensen at uni-c.dk> wrote:

> Hi guyz,
> 
> At the moment I'm using gzip to compress my argus logfiles but I would like to save more harddisk-space.
> 
> One option is to use bzip2, but it's much much slower than gzip both on compress/write but most important on decompress/read, and because of that it's not really a viable option for me.
> 
> xz on the other hand is VERY slow at compressing (doesn't matter for me, it's just a batch job in the background) but decompresses just as fast at gzip. The major advantage with xz is the huge save in compressed filesize you get. A few quick tests shows 36% saved when compared to bzip2 and 41% when compared to gzip.
> 
> File compressor;Bytes
> uncompressed argus file;105268632
> gzip;39122641
> bzip2;36041236
> xz;22977764
> xz with -e and -9; 22600708
> 
> As you can see there's only a very small gain with the last "xz -e -9", and it takes MUCH longer to compress, so it's probably not useful in real-life situations. But the xz itself looks promising.
> 
> Unfortunately Argus clients doesn't read xz by default and I would have to make my own wrapper for this to work. Would it be possible to add xz as native supported compression format for the Argus clients?
> 
> 
> --
> Regards
> Jesper
> 

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