Re: general/4809: It would be nice if Apache could write compressedlogfiles.

[Vincent Janelle <vj...@home.com>]

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> 
> > > Trivial to do by linking in zlib.
> >
> > Doing so would also allow us to do the compression-on-the-fly
> > content delivery people have requested.  No?
> 
> Correct.  zlib gives you all the standard file io functions like gzopen,
> gzclose, gzread, gzwrite, gzeof, etc.
> 
> -Rasmus

So, how would this be done though?  A large site doing a lot of hits/sec
could end up spending most of its time just compressing log files.

I still like the idea of a logging process, perhaps something that could
be centerally managed, but I should probably try to write one before
asking for one =)
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Re: general/4809: It would be nice if Apache could write compressedlogfiles.

[Rasmus Lerdorf <ra...@raleigh.ibm.com>]

> > > Doing so would also allow us to do the compression-on-the-fly
> > > content delivery people have requested.  No?
> > 
> > Correct.  zlib gives you all the standard file io functions like gzopen,
> > gzclose, gzread, gzwrite, gzeof, etc.
> > 
> > -Rasmus
> 
> So, how would this be done though?  A large site doing a lot of hits/sec
> could end up spending most of its time just compressing log files.

Hey, I was just relaying information.  I think it is a terrible idea to
make Apache write compressed log files on the fly.

-Rasmus