diff --git a/ledis/replication.go b/ledis/replication.go
index 02c3e4e..1fa1531 100644
--- a/ledis/replication.go
+++ b/ledis/replication.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"errors"
 	"github.com/siddontang/go/log"
+	"github.com/siddontang/go/snappy"
 	"github.com/siddontang/ledisdb/rpl"
 	"io"
 	"time"
@@ -37,12 +38,23 @@ func (l *Ledis) handleReplication() {
 			}
 		} else {
 			l.rbatch.Rollback()
+
+			if rl.Compression == 1 {
+				//todo optimize
+				if rl.Data, err = snappy.Decode(nil, rl.Data); err != nil {
+					log.Error("decode log error %s", err.Error())
+					return
+				}
+			}
+
 			decodeEventBatch(l.rbatch, rl.Data)
 
 			if err := l.rbatch.Commit(); err != nil {
 				log.Error("commit log error %s", err.Error())
+				return
 			} else if err = l.r.UpdateCommitID(rl.ID); err != nil {
 				log.Error("update commit id error %s", err.Error())
+				return
 			}
 		}
 
diff --git a/ledis/replication_test.go b/ledis/replication_test.go
index 6e277a9..c300ef8 100644
--- a/ledis/replication_test.go
+++ b/ledis/replication_test.go
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ func TestReplication(t *testing.T) {
 	cfgM.DataDir = "/tmp/test_repl/master"
 
 	cfgM.UseReplication = true
+	cfgM.Replication.Compression = true
 
 	os.RemoveAll(cfgM.DataDir)
 
diff --git a/rpl/log.go b/rpl/log.go
index 775ea5d..261e852 100644
--- a/rpl/log.go
+++ b/rpl/log.go
@@ -4,27 +4,18 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"encoding/binary"
 	"io"
-	"time"
 )
 
 type Log struct {
-	ID         uint64
-	CreateTime uint32
+	ID          uint64
+	CreateTime  uint32
+	Compression uint8
 
 	Data []byte
 }
 
-func NewLog(id uint64, data []byte) *Log {
-	l := new(Log)
-	l.ID = id
-	l.CreateTime = uint32(time.Now().Unix())
-	l.Data = data
-
-	return l
-}
-
 func (l *Log) HeadSize() int {
-	return 16
+	return 17
 }
 
 func (l *Log) Size() int {
@@ -58,6 +49,9 @@ func (l *Log) Encode(w io.Writer) error {
 	binary.BigEndian.PutUint32(buf[pos:], l.CreateTime)
 	pos += 4
 
+	buf[pos] = l.Compression
+	pos++
+
 	binary.BigEndian.PutUint32(buf[pos:], uint32(len(l.Data)))
 
 	if n, err := w.Write(buf); err != nil {
@@ -88,6 +82,9 @@ func (l *Log) Decode(r io.Reader) error {
 	l.CreateTime = binary.BigEndian.Uint32(buf[pos:])
 	pos += 4
 
+	l.Compression = uint8(buf[pos])
+	pos++
+
 	length := binary.BigEndian.Uint32(buf[pos:])
 
 	l.Data = l.Data[0:0]
diff --git a/rpl/rpl.go b/rpl/rpl.go
index f7324c8..3eaad9a 100644
--- a/rpl/rpl.go
+++ b/rpl/rpl.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package rpl
 import (
 	"encoding/binary"
 	"github.com/siddontang/go/log"
+	"github.com/siddontang/go/snappy"
 	"github.com/siddontang/ledisdb/config"
 	"os"
 	"path"
@@ -86,6 +87,14 @@ func (r *Replication) Close() error {
 }
 
 func (r *Replication) Log(data []byte) (*Log, error) {
+	if r.cfg.Replication.Compression {
+		//todo optimize
+		var err error
+		if data, err = snappy.Encode(nil, data); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+
 	r.m.Lock()
 	defer r.m.Unlock()
 
@@ -103,6 +112,12 @@ func (r *Replication) Log(data []byte) (*Log, error) {
 	l.ID = lastID + 1
 	l.CreateTime = uint32(time.Now().Unix())
 
+	if r.cfg.Replication.Compression {
+		l.Compression = 1
+	} else {
+		l.Compression = 0
+	}
+
 	l.Data = data
 
 	if err = r.s.StoreLog(l); err != nil {
diff --git a/server/client.go b/server/client.go
index 2ccea7a..ef9de76 100644
--- a/server/client.go
+++ b/server/client.go
@@ -60,8 +60,7 @@ type client struct {
 
 	resp responseWriter
 
-	syncBuf     bytes.Buffer
-	compressBuf []byte
+	syncBuf bytes.Buffer
 
 	lastLogID uint64
 
@@ -83,7 +82,6 @@ func newClient(app *App) *client {
 	c.ldb = app.ldb
 	c.db, _ = app.ldb.Select(0) //use default db
 
-	c.compressBuf = []byte{}
 	c.reqErr = make(chan error)
 
 	return c
diff --git a/server/cmd_replication.go b/server/cmd_replication.go
index a261f42..ba091aa 100644
--- a/server/cmd_replication.go
+++ b/server/cmd_replication.go
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ package server
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"github.com/siddontang/go/hack"
-	"github.com/siddontang/go/snappy"
-
 	"github.com/siddontang/ledisdb/ledis"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
@@ -94,14 +92,6 @@ func syncCommand(c *client) error {
 	} else {
 		buf := c.syncBuf.Bytes()
 
-		if len(c.compressBuf) < snappy.MaxEncodedLen(len(buf)) {
-			c.compressBuf = make([]byte, snappy.MaxEncodedLen(len(buf)))
-		}
-
-		if buf, err = snappy.Encode(c.compressBuf, buf); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-
 		c.resp.writeBulk(buf)
 	}
 
diff --git a/server/replication.go b/server/replication.go
index 3dd767e..d912016 100644
--- a/server/replication.go
+++ b/server/replication.go
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"github.com/siddontang/go/hack"
 	"github.com/siddontang/go/log"
-
-	"github.com/siddontang/go/snappy"
 	"github.com/siddontang/ledisdb/ledis"
 	"github.com/siddontang/ledisdb/rpl"
 	"net"
@@ -38,8 +36,6 @@ type master struct {
 	wg sync.WaitGroup
 
 	syncBuf bytes.Buffer
-
-	compressBuf []byte
 }
 
 func newMaster(app *App) *master {
@@ -48,8 +44,6 @@ func newMaster(app *App) *master {
 
 	m.quit = make(chan struct{}, 1)
 
-	m.compressBuf = make([]byte, 256)
-
 	return m
 }
 
@@ -219,13 +213,7 @@ func (m *master) sync() error {
 		}
 	}
 
-	var buf []byte
-	buf, err = snappy.Decode(m.compressBuf, m.syncBuf.Bytes())
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	} else if len(buf) > len(m.compressBuf) {
-		m.compressBuf = buf
-	}
+	buf := m.syncBuf.Bytes()
 
 	if len(buf) == 0 {
 		return nil