[Building Sakai] Tomcat standalone, GZIP performance

[Lance Speelmon]

David - IIUC most people are handling gzip in apache and not in tomcat, which is why info may be sparse.  YMMV. :)  L

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_deflate.html

On Feb 26, 2013, at 8:56 PM, "Poindexter, David Ray" <davpoind at iupui.edu> wrote:

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