Comment 1 for bug 1091499

Hi Haw,

The data we receive from the clients is gzip'ed and base64'ed (because apport wants to produce text-only report files).

This seems wasteful, as your findings suggest. We should be decoding the base64 data client-side and just sending the gzip data, or possibly using a different compression algorithm in apport (and whoopsie). I briefly looked at lz4, and its higher compression ratio option looks promising.

The *.core files are the uncompressed core files and are either leftover from crashed retracers, or retraces-in-progress.