== Benchmarking compressors for logs ==

Compressing /var/log/apache2/gnu.org-access.log on wildebeest.gnu.org:

|| *Compressor* || *Time*   || *Size* ||
|| cat          ||     1s   || 341M   ||
|| gzip         ||    20s   ||  30M   ||
|| bzip2        ||   169s   ||  18M   ||
|| xz           ||   172s   ||  17M   ||
|| xz -9        ||   203s   ||  16M   ||