[Building Sakai] Tomcat standalone, GZIP performance

[Seth Theriault]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Poindexter, David Ray
<davpoind at iupui.edu> wrote:
> Anyone on the list have some experience with enabling gzip compressing for
> CSS/JS using Tomcat 7, specifically regarding performance issues? Not using
> Apache 2 as a front. Just a basic load balancer to tomcat and back setup.

Are you concerned about turning it on because it might hurt
performance or are you looking for info about how to turn it on?

The latter is clearly stated here under the "compression" attribute:

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/http.html#Standard_Implementation

Seth