Re: [squid-users] GZIP and Squid on a high performance website?

Le Lundi 22 F�vrier 2010 14:31:51, Gerrit Berkouwer a �crit :
> 2010/2/22 Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>:
> > Gerrit Berkouwer wrote:
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> we want to use Squid-3.1 with ecap support to enable the external gzip
> >> module on our high performance/high availability website.
> >> We want to use GZIP because we think this will improve performance for
> >> our end-users, following the 'high-performance website' rules of Steve
> >> Souders of Google, gzipping content being one of those rules.
> >>
> >> Are there any users on this list that use GZIP with Squid for this
> >> reason? If so, how do you manage this? With the Squid-ecap-gzip module
> >> at http://code.google.com/p/squid-ecap-gzip/?
> >>
> >> Any thoughts on using GZIP and Squid for high performance high
> >> availability websites? is GZIP worthwhile with todays broadband
> >> connections of clients?
> >
> > I believe the benefits of compression come when pre-zipping content on
> > the web server. As in: two static versions of every file stored.
>
> Can this be done with Apache? So let Apache do the GZIP and serve
> Squid this gzipped file? Without the eCAP module?
>
> > There seem to be several people using the gzip eCAP module. One has
> > reported that it slows traffic down in their high-speed setup. As can
> > kind of be expected when adding extra processing mid-transit.
> > So test well before deploying.
>
> Any suggestions how to test this reliably?
>
> Thank you!
> Gerrit
>
> > Amos
> > --
> > Please be using
> > Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE7 or 3.0.STABLE24
> > Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.16

of course my friend, gpl software has no limits :)

http://perl.apache.org/docs/tutorials/client/compression/compression.html
Received on Mon Feb 22 2010 - 21:08:36 MST