>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:39 PM, James A. Robinson >> <jim.robin...@stanford.edu wrote: >> >> ... >> message sets). In our test we were seeing a compression ratio of >> perhaps 25%, and I think that's about what I'd expect for >> per-message
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The compression ratio is going to be very data dependent. If you can > compress to 1/4 of the original size, that's pretty good. At > LinkedIn, we compress messages up to 200 using gzip. The compressed > data is about 1/3 of the original data. Thanks very much. I didn't phrase my original email very well. What I was trying to indicate was that the size of the broker log was about 1/4 smaller than the size of the original input data. Jim - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - James A. Robinson jim.robin...@stanford.edu Stanford University HighWire Press http://highwire.stanford.edu/ +1 650 7237294 (Work) +1 650 7259335 (Fax)