Evgeny Kotkov <kot...@apache.org> writes: > Add 'http-compression=auto' mode on the client, now used by default. > > Following up on the recently added support for LZ4 compression, this patch > introduces the new possible 'auto' mode for our client 'http-compression' > configuration option, and starts using it by default. > > The previously used default was 'http-compression=yes', and the new 'auto' > mode is a small, but an important tweak to its behavior. In the new mode, > the HTTP compression is still being used, but the negotiating is tweaked > to favor svndiff2 with LZ4 compression when working over local networks. > > The reasoning behind this is that for local networks it probably makes sense > to favor compression speed of LZ4 instead of the better compression ratio > from zlib-5, which has been used previously. > > To separate local and wide area networks, we use the connection latency of > the initial OPTIONS request obtained with serf_connection_get_latency().
Hi all, This patch changes the default on-the-wire format to svndiff2 / LZ4 in some of the configurations. Changing the LZ4-related defaults hasn't been explicitly discussed on the list yet, so I plan to start a thread on this in short time. Regards, Evgeny Kotkov
