[TS-1521] Enable compression for binary log format

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: sometime
• Component/s: Logging

Environment

RHEL 6+

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Lans Carstensen
• Created: 11/Oct/12 23:55
• Updated: 15/Aug/16 20:28

Description

As noted by in a discussion on #traffic-server, gzip can result in 90%+ compression on the binary access logs. By adding a reasonable streaming compression algorithm to the binary format you could significantly reduce logging-related IOPS.