[ccache] Compression

Joel Rosdahl joel at rosdahl.net
Tue May 7 19:28:05 UTC 2019


Hi Francios,

On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 12:17, Francois E via ccache
<ccache at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> We use a shared ccache server hosted on a remote server, some of us
> experience slow connection to that server. I was wondering if
> compression would help in this case, i.e does the (un)compression occur
> at the server level or at the local level ?

Ccache does not have a server part, so compression is done locally. But I guess
you mean that you use a shared network filesystem, in which case compression
very well could help since the file server then won't have to receive and send
as much data.

-- Joel



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