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Originally Posted by JoeD
Quick comment on the file sizes, there's a chance the logs are compressed and uncompressed (zless) on the fly to read. It's common for a 1MB log to compress to 50-60KB gzip'd (30-40KB bzip'd although don't think zless supports those).
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I find that hard to believe. You can get a factor of 2 or perhaps 3 when you compress a text file, but a factor of 20? Unless the information in the file is massively redundant (lots of repeated strings) I just don't see how it could be done.