[Popcon-developers] Bug#149425: should compress data before sending

[Erik Schanze]

Hello!

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You are a spammer? ;-)
My mail provider seems to think so, sorry.

> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:54:30PM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote:
> > How about this bug?
> > Was there any work done on it?
> > It's open for more than 2 years now and seems not really hard to fix.
>
> If it easy to fix, how would you do it ?
>
As described in mails before, add this functionality to popcon server and=20
client, but I have no access to do it. ;-)

> I proposed a solution, but the other popcon maintainer disagreed, so
> I did not it implement it.
>
Why? Are there any problems with doing so?
It could be a non-default option, so not everybody have to use it.

> > What about this "process of reorganizing" and the status of the needed
> > possibility of compressed reports?
>
> A lot of work have been done. Now we have the popcon.debian.org website
> and virtual host.
>
Great work, thank you.
But there is still something to do for this bug.

> > My report is about 73k per machine and I own only a low bandwitdh modem
> > connection, so a comression would be great.
>
> Given compressed data will need to be base64'ed, compression will not
> get you much:
>
> %ls -l popularity-contest*
> -rw-r--r--    1 bill     bill        25912 f=E9v 17 13:21 popularity-cont=
est
> -rw-rw-r--    1 bill     bill        11432 f=E9v 17 13:23
> popularity-contest.b64 -rw-r--r--    1 bill     bill         8411 f=E9v 17
> 13:20 popularity-contest.gz
>
There are better results on my site:
$ bzip2 -9 -c popularity-contest >popularity-contest.bz2
$ gzip -9 -c popularity-contest >popularity-contest.gz
$ uuencode -m popularity-contest.bz2 popcon >popularity-contest.bz2.b64
$ uuencode -m popularity-contest.gz popcon >popularity-contest.gz.b64
$ ls -l popularity-contest*
=2Drw-r--r--  1 es users 74155 2005-02-17 23:19 popularity-contest
=2Drw-r--r--  1 es users 18031 2005-02-17 23:20 popularity-contest.bz2
=2Drw-r--r--  1 es users 24474 2005-02-17 23:21 popularity-contest.bz2.b64
=2Drw-r--r--  1 es users 20650 2005-02-17 23:20 popularity-contest.gz
=2Drw-r--r--  1 es users 28024 2005-02-17 23:21 popularity-contest.gz.b64

I would say 28024/74155 ~=3D 38 %.

I think is is NOT the case of "will not get you much", isn't it?

> However the current popcon server (gluck.debian.org, aka
> people.debian.org and a dozen other vhost) is a bit overloaded
> currently so I am careful about not making change that would increase
> the resource usage.
>
But it will decrease the network usage.

Please consider to think about it and discuss it with involved people again.
Thank you.

If there is really no solution available, you should tag this bug "wontfix"=
=20
with an final statement.


Kindly regards,
Erik


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