Thanks for the references and your insights. I will give some of these ideas a try and see how it works out for me.
====================== Jeff Shearer, CISA, CISSP -----Original Message----- From: "Tom Evans" [tevans...@googlemail.com] Date: 01/31/2011 04:33 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [users@httpd] compression on hard disks On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > File compression and decompression happens within your operating system, and > Apache doesn't care. That is, it requests the file from the OS and the OS > hands it over. Apache has no concern or interest in how that file is stored > on, or retrieved from, disk. > > This means, of course, that when Apache receives the file, it is no longer > compresses. So apart from the performance hit in decompression, it doesn't > notice at all. It also means that no, it can't pass that compression through > to the client. It can, however, recompress it using mod_deflate. > > From a website performance perspective, compressed filesystems are a bad > idea. Presumably you have other considerations? > Pretty sure the OP meant pre-compressed files, so Apache doesn't have to compress them itself, and serve them with mod_negotiation, which several other people have already commented on, so I'll skip that. Compressed filesystems are a bad idea for serving files from. However they may have other uses; I use a lzjb compressed /var/log partition on ZFS, and that is quite handy from a performance POV. Cheers Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
