Thank you for the response. I was hoping that the metadata would compress better because it's almost identical between rows in my application. 99% of the rows are going to be from the same unit.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net> wrote: > > The journal generates substantially more data, simply because we > collect a lot of implicit metadata for each log even. This data is > usually not compressed (we only compress individually large fields, > and usually fields are not individuall large). The implicit metadata > means we roughly collect 10x as much data and store that away. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel