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Message #06299
[Bug 840304] Re: /etc/logrotate.d/apport should not have compress option
This becomes more important with SSD disks whose lifetime depends on the
number of write cycles.
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Title:
/etc/logrotate.d/apport should not have compress option
Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
I think that log files compression lowers the system performance on
desktop computers which have now enough disk space for storing old
logs.
The "nocompress" and "compress" options of logrotate configure 2
different behaviours of logrotate.
If the log file isn't compressed,
logrotate will just rename it to something like 'log_file_name.log.1'
with quite no disk input/output.
If the log file is compressed,
logrotate will read the file, compress it and rewrite the content into a new file with a name like 'log_file_name.log.1.gz'.
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, documentation, fonts, Debian package files, ...).
Drawbacks of log files compression :
- increases disk input/output
- increases cpu and memory usage
- increases energy consumption
- slightly decreases the disk lifetime
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: apport 1.20.1-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 3 14:34:12 2011
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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