Re: HTTP Compression & Squid

On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Jordan Mendelson wrote:

> As you can see from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/apache/gzip/, adding
> compression significantly speeds up client access by up to 30% on a 28.8
> modem.

See http://www.research.att.com/~bala/papers/sigcomm97.ps.gz for a more
detailed study.
 
> The biggest problem I see is that gzip eats CPU, so obviously gzip -9 won't
> be the prefered compression method on large servers :)

They say, gzip -9 is close to gzip -1 for HTML files. The biggest problem I
see is that fiddling with content passing by goes against Squid design. A lot
of stuff will have to be changed to support compression.

$0.02,

Alex.
Received on Sat Dec 19 1998 - 18:31:53 MST