Consider record compression for repeated characters

[trevor-vaughan]

I noticed that my logs are getting a LOT of data that consists of just the \ character repeated.

I would suggest making that a multiplier field so that there isn't so much data hitting the logs constantly.

Something like %tbuf(100*)\ or the like would a lot of space, particularly when using tlog with multiple hosts.

[spbnick]

@trevor-vaughan lots of \ characters repeated might be you recording yourself viewing the logs ;) Happened to me more than once. That said, optional compression might be good, as long as the logs get uncompressed for searching somewhere (e.g. in Elasticsearch).

[trevor-vaughan]

@spbnick Yup, that was it. It's going to be really common though since one of the most commonly audited accounts is root. I'd still like the feature :-D