Re: [tor-dev] Metrics tarballs now available as .tar.xz rather than .tar.bz2

2014-05-17 Thread grarpamp
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > The effect is that the total size of metrics tarballs shrinks from 212G > to 33G. The savings in disk space and bandwidth were too tempting, even > though compression and decompression are going to cost some more CPU and > memory. > Howeve

[tor-dev] Metrics tarballs now available as .tar.xz rather than .tar.bz2

2014-05-17 Thread Karsten Loesing
Hello all, we switched the compression format for metrics tarballs. They are now available as .tar.xz (compressed with `xz -9`), with the previous format being .tar.bz2 (compressed with `bzip2 -1`). The effect is that the total size of metrics tarballs shrinks from 212G to 33G. The savings in d