Re: [squid-users] Compressing HTML pages before sending to client

Hello,

What about performance? If Squids needs to compress every file, then
will decrease the performance a lot....and it will ask a lot of CPU.
If you're using one Squid proxy it will save diskspace, but that's it.
But if you have multiple Squids running, and those Squid can communicate
to each other with compressed files it will save a lot bandwith, and
the speed between those 2 servers will increase......but like I said,
you need more powerfull machines.

rgrds,

       Bart
Robert Collins wrote:

>Oops, seem to have deleted the first post in the thread...
>
>On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 13:03, Tony Melia (DMS) wrote:
>
>
>>Sounds good, but I think it would make more sense to compress the file
>>before committing it to disk at the caching level so as to compress the
>>cache.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Robert Mena [mailto:rt_mena@yahoo.com]
>>Sent: Monday, 21 July 2003 12:07
>>To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
>>Subject: Re: [squid-users] Compressing HTML pages before sending to client
>>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I recently searched the archives and found one
>>post/reply where the ability to dinamically compress
>>the HTML before sending to the users was put as a
>>3.1/3.2 feature.
>>
>>I do not subscribe to the devel list so should we
>>expect this 3.1 for this year ?
>>
>>
>
>No. 3.0 is in the release process now, 3.1 at the earliest will be next
>year.
>
>
>
>>Is there any other proxy (and that can me sent to me
>>directly) that do offer this feature ?
>>
>>
>
>Not that I'm aware of, although apache mod_gzip + mod_proxy may do this.
>
>
>
>>It really can save a lot of bandwidth and time for
>>dial-up users so please consider adding this as soon
>>as possible.
>>
>>
>
>It's been implemented before in the TE branch on devel.squid-cache.org
>by Patrick McManus, and then enhanced by me to support proxy-proxy
>compression as well. However, severe logic problems prevented
>stabilisation of this feature in the 2.x codebase. Thats why it's slated
>for a 3.x release.
>
>If you will find it valuable, you might consider sponsoring (alone or as
>a group of interested folk) a squid developer to implement it for 3.x.
>I'd be happy to discuss this with you..
>
>Cheers,
>Rob
>(Squid developer)
>
>
>
Received on Mon Jul 21 2003 - 03:50:38 MDT