[Orca-users] space concerns, gzip, bzip2 or nothing

[Bruce Shaw]

I've been using ORCA for about a month and my
/usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/machinename directory is rapidly filling with
files, threatening the sanctity of my /usr filespace.  I'm using
orcallator.se on a variety of machines and am confused on how it decided how
to compress files.  None of these machines have a COMPRESSOR environmental
variable.

One machine uses bzip2, most use gzip, but several don't compress at all.
I'd like to be consistent.  What is the logic behind this?  Short of
setenv-ing COMPRESSOR, is there a way of hard-coding it?

I'm rdist-ing my data files to a central location and intend to remove any
.gz/bz files on the clients, but would also like to reduce the load on the
central server.  When is ORCA "finished with" a .gz file so I can archive
it?

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