Enable Link Compression

The xrpld server can save bandwidth by compressing its peer-to-peer communications, at a cost of greater CPU usage. If you enable link compression, the server automatically compresses communications with peer servers that also have link compression enabled.

To enable link compression on your server, complete the following steps:

$ vim /etc/xrpld/xrpld.cfg

The recommended installation uses the config file /etc/xrpld/xrpld.cfg by default. Other places you can put a config file include $HOME/.config/xrpld/xrpld.cfg (where $HOME is the home directory of the user running rippled), $HOME/.local/xrpld/xrpld.cfg, or the current working directory from where you start rippled.

The config file was renamed from rippled.cfg to xrpld.cfg. During the transition, if xrpld.cfg is not present the server still reads rippled.cfg from the same locations, so existing config files keep working without being renamed.

To enable compression:

[compression]
true

Use false to disable compression (the default).

$ sudo systemctl restart xrpld.service

After the restart, your server automatically uses link compression with other peers that also have link compression enabled.

• Capacity Planning
• Peer Protocol