Re: hpt zlib
  By: Matt Bedynek to Eric Renfro on Tue Sep 15 2015 04:38 am

 MB> On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 06:15:04 -0400, Eric Renfro wrote:

 ER>> On a side note.. One interesting thing regarding compression and
 ER>> message 
 MB> bases.
 ER>> Synchronet supports compressing the body of every message in LZH
 ER>> format if 
 MB> you
 ER>> so choose, so there is /a/ message base format that can compress.
 ER>> heh heh. 

 MB> Compression in a message base is not necessary. An alternative (if
 MB> you run FreeBSD) is to use ZFS and setup a namespace with compression.
 MB> Or, run run FreeNAS on your file server and do it there.

Heh
It surprises me how many people tout off ZFS, and don't really understand just
what they're suggesting. My BBS runs on a VM running 512MB RAM, I only upped it
recently to 1GB to run clamd. ZFS, adding compression to it, memory utilization
just for ZFS skyrockets. Add deduplication on top of that, now we're talking
overkill memory. :)

While ZFS is nice, it also consumes a lot of RAM to do what it does. It's very
very very memory hungry, and rightfully so as it's the only way to speed up
what it does properly. :)

It would be less resource intensive to use message base compression than to use
ZFS compression, in this logic, and I could, if I wanted to spend the time to
do so, prove that. When it comes to Linux, filesystems, and such, I know a
seriously heavy amount of information, as I've been doing Linux, hardcore,
since 1992. :)

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