Bug#832010: Please enable LZ4 compression

[Michael Biebl]

Am 21.07.2016 um 18:46 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 21.07.2016 um 18:32 schrieb Felipe Sateler:
>> On 21 July 2016 at 06:28, Yuri D'Elia <wavexx at thregr.org> wrote:
>>> Package: systemd-coredump
>>> Version: 230-7
>>> Severity: wishlist
>>>
>>> LZ4 compression makes a huge difference in terms of performance impact when
>>> compressing core files, but it's currently not enabled (I guess due to
>>> missing
>>> LZ4 dependency?).
>>>
>>> LZ4 is the default compression method according to upstream since systemd
>>> 229.
> 
> What exactly do you mean by "default"?
> Afaics, the default is no compression at all.
> 

And in Debian we build against libxz, so xz compression is used for core
files.

What would we gain by switching from xz to lz4. Can you provide numbers?


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