Understanding compression statistics

The Compression page in the HCP System Management Console displays statistics about the space saved by the Compression/Encryption service. It also lets you control various aspects of compression activity.

NoteTo view the Compression page, you need the monitor or administrator role. To change compression settings, you need the administrator role.

To display the Compression page, in the top-level menu of the System Management Console, select Services Compression.

The Compression page shows:

  • Total bytes saved by compression

    The current number of bytes of storage freed by compressed objects, object parts, and chunks for objects and object parts

  • Percent of storage saved

    The amount of storage space currently saved by compression, expressed as a percentage of the total space available for storing objects

  • Number of objects and object parts compressed

    The total number of these items currently compressed: objects, parts of multipart objects, chunks for erasure-coded objects, and chunks for erasure-coded parts of multipart objects

The page also shows the current compression settings.