Monday, March 03, 2014

[saeirlhq] Compressed rolling window log

Create a log mechanism such that the log is compressed, the size of the compressed log remains under some limit, and old log entries are deleted to make room for new entries.

Compression makes this tricky, though we want it because log entries tend to be repetitive.  Probably work with compressed blocks, dropping an entire block when it becomes necessary to make more room.

Lately been annoyed that default log settings (usually by time) on personal computers are too short despite disk space being cheap.

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