Re: [REVIEW] Re: Compression of full-page-writes

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Rahila Syed <rahilasyed.90@gmail.com> wrote:
> The only scenario in which a user would not want to compress forcibly
> written pages is when CPU utilization is high.

Or if they think the code to compress full pages is buggy.

> But according to measurements
> done earlier the CPU utilization  of compress=’on’ and ‘off’ are not
> significantly different.

If that's really true, we could consider having no configuration any
time, and just compressing always.  But I'm skeptical that it's
actually true.

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