Feature Requests item #1439180, was opened at 2006-02-26 15:03 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by abehrens You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1439180&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: core Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Mahdi Naraghi (momesana) Assigned to: Richard Laager (rlaager) Summary: compressing log-files to save space Initial Comment: For chat-junkies like I am (and the other half of the internet-community) logging is a very useful feature and we use it exhaustively. the problem with it, is that the log-files are saved onto ~/.gaim/logs uncompressed and occupy A LOT OF precious diskspace. Since the logs are made up of simple ascii files (text or html) you will experience a huge reduction (up to 20 times) in size by using ordinary wellknown compression-algorithms. A fairly new gaim directory I examined had grown to 7,1 MB within 5 weeks. issuing tar cvfj logs.tar.bz2 logs demonstrated what can be achieved in this field. A few commands say more than thousand words... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.gaim $ du -sh logs/ 7,2M logs/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.gaim $ tar cvfj logs.tar.bz2 logs ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.gaim $ du -sh logs.tar.bz2 436K logs.tar.bz2 Now, 7,2 MB is not that much but in a year, it will grow to 70 MB. within 2 years 140 MB. Why shouldn't that be reduced to less than 10 MB? Since I see no practical reason that speaks against compressing the logs (except of programming effort), this feature would be very useful. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: abehrens (abehrens) Date: 2007-03-20 11:56 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1069783 Originator: NO If logs are compressed, I'd like it to be done using a standard compression format (like gzip or bzip2) so that they can be read/searched outside of gaim. Downside of compression is that history searches become slower since you have to uncompress everything you're searching. I'm not convinced this is a useful feature. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Matthew Lock (matthewlock) Date: 2006-06-14 04:02 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=478953 I like the plain text logs as it means I can search them with grep or any other tools. Windows 2000 and XP already implement a per-folder compression scheme which can be used to compress Gaim logs if need be, maybe Linux does too? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Laager (rlaager) Date: 2006-02-27 02:43 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=156487 I agree. I haven't had the time to do this yet, but it's on my TODO list. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1439180&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Gaim-features mailing list Gaim-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-features
