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authorHenning Baldersheim <balder@yahoo-inc.com>2017-08-14 14:04:33 +0200
committerHenning Baldersheim <balder@yahoo-inc.com>2017-08-14 14:04:33 +0200
commitba277843ea99b4bb25df628d30f111798ff33f05 (patch)
tree3ee6987efe1f9ef6d0032345fddf11ddc0c971fc
parent52ece4e545b53a1946ff2b6d453630d0998a53da (diff)
Improve comments about ZSTD compression levels.
-rw-r--r--searchcore/src/vespa/searchcore/config/proton.def4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/searchcore/src/vespa/searchcore/config/proton.def b/searchcore/src/vespa/searchcore/config/proton.def
index 770c7bd960f..ac17efcab3f 100644
--- a/searchcore/src/vespa/searchcore/config/proton.def
+++ b/searchcore/src/vespa/searchcore/config/proton.def
@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ summary.cache.compression.type enum {NONE, LZ4, ZSTD} default=LZ4 restart
## Control compression level of the summary while in cache.
## LZ4 has normal range 1..9 while ZSTD has range 1..19
+## 9 is a reasonable default for both
summary.cache.compression.level int default=9 restart
## Control compression type of the summary while in memory during compaction
@@ -222,6 +223,7 @@ summary.log.compact.compression.type enum {NONE, LZ4, ZSTD} default=ZSTD restart
## Control compression level of the summary while in memory during compaction
## LZ4 has normal range 1..9 while ZSTD has range 1..19
+## 9 is a reasonable default for both
summary.log.compact.compression.level int default=9 restart
## Control compression type of the summary
@@ -229,6 +231,8 @@ summary.log.chunk.compression.type enum {NONE, LZ4, ZSTD} default=ZSTD restart
## Control compression level of the summary
## LZ4 has normal range 1..9 while ZSTD has range 1..19
+## 9 is a reasonable default for both. Going above for ZSTD can give an improvement,
+## but is better done in conjunction with increasing chunk size.
summary.log.chunk.compression.level int default=9 restart
## Max size in bytes per chunk.