On 28 August 2014 04:10, Dave Reisner <d...@falconindy.com> wrote: > Hi, > > lz4 is growing in popularity as a compression algorithm. As of systemd > 216, systemd-journald supports lz4 (in addition to xz). Benchmarks[1] > were provided at the time Zbigniew wrote the patches to show the > impressive drop in CPU required to compress journal files. > > There's already a feature request to enable this[2], and a complaint > about the excessive CPU usage of XZ in the presence of a program which > doesn't behave[3] in some given environment. > > So, with that, is anyone opposed to moving lz4 to [core] so that systemd > can sanely depend on it? > > Cheers, > d > > [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/021048.html > [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41721 > [3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41728
+1 Seems like a good idea to use LZ4 for core dumps.
