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-rw-r--r--doc/guix.texi2
-rw-r--r--gnu/services/base.scm6
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index da18b45cf9..bada446357 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -15646,7 +15646,7 @@ This allows neighboring Guix devices with discovery on (see
@code{guix-configuration} above) to discover this @command{guix publish}
instance and to automatically download substitutes from it.
-@item @code{compression} (default: @code{'(("gzip" 3))})
+@item @code{compression} (default: @code{'(("gzip" 3) ("zstd" 3))})
This is a list of compression method/level tuple used when compressing
substitutes. For example, to compress all substitutes with @emph{both} lzip
at level 7 and gzip at level 9, write:
diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index a8214ae96f..24b3ea785b 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -1816,7 +1816,11 @@ proxy of 'guix-daemon'...~%")
raise a deprecation warning if the 'compression-level' field was used."
(match (%guix-publish-configuration-compression-level config)
(#f
- '(("gzip" 3)))
+ ;; Default to low compression levels when there's no cache so that users
+ ;; get good bandwidth by default.
+ (if (guix-publish-configuration-cache config)
+ '(("gzip" 5) ("zstd" 19))
+ '(("gzip" 3) ("zstd" 3)))) ;zstd compresses faster
(level
(warn-about-deprecation 'compression-level properties
#:replacement 'compression)