I was looking at website GZip compression and...

[James78]

This website feels a little slow at times, so I checked if this site was GZip compressed, and it's not! 100kb normal forum topic listing, and it could be compressed 80% to 20kb! Faster downloading for the users, and less bandwidth usage for the server! I was quite surprised when I found this...

Link for reference..
http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php

... And enter a URL to one of these pages.

[Bachstelze]

gzip compression would put additional load on the CPU. I don't think we need that right now.

[James78]

gzip compression would put additional load on the CPU. I don't think we need that right now.
I am aware of that, although usually the extra load is worthit for the bandwidth saved, and faster browsing for users. Either way, it depends on the server. Still though, it'd be much faster browsing huh? ;)

[Bachstelze]

I am aware of that, although usually the extra load is worthit for the bandwidth saved, and faster browsing for users.

Usually. Here, the CPU is already working close to full load. Add the load of gzipping millions of pages per day, and you bring it to its knees, meaning no browsing for anyone.

[James78]

Usually. Here, the CPU is already working close to full load. Add the load of gzipping millions of pages per day, and you bring it to its knees, meaning no browsing for anyone.
Haha ya.

[worseisworser]

Huh? This site is actually CPU-bound?

I don't know too much about PHP, but I recall there being some compiler/cache thing available for it?

[Bachstelze]

Huh? This site is actually CPU-bound?


The load average is constantly well above one.