[Building Sakai] Tomcat standalone, GZIP performance

[Poindexter, David Ray]

I know how to turn it on in Tomcat 7. I'm wondering about performance
impacts it may have, and others' experiences.

There are quite a few variables, too. Such as the min file size and
enabling reasonable expires headers, that could make differences.

Google isn't coming up with many results specific to institutions doing
this, so I'm faced with two possibilities that are interesting: 1) Nobody
has done it yet, or 2) Everyone has tried it, it's a crappy idea, and I'm
the next in a line of newbies trying to get some good low-hanging fruit :)
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David Poindexter

Systems Analyst

Enterprise Student Systems

UITS

Indiana University

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Indianapolis, IN 46202-5157

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On 2/26/13 9:33 PM, "Seth Theriault" <slt at columbia.edu> wrote:

>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_Implemen
>tation
>
>Seth