[systemd-devel] journal space requirements

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:

> Yeah, definitely something is not working.
>
> journalctl --lines=100 -o export | build-remote/systemd-journal-remote --compress --stdin -o /tmp/dir2/file.journal
>
> gives me 644K,
> and XZ turns that into 31K.
>
> journalctl --lines=100 -o export | build-remote/systemd-journal-remote --no-compress --stdin -o /tmp/dir3/file.journal
>
> gives me 660K,
> and XZ turns that into 29K.
>
> Maybe it's just that this is mostly small text messages and compressing
> the individually doesn't help much.

#define COMPRESSION_SIZE_THRESHOLD (512ULL)

Kay