Stephen Pierzchala wrote:
All:
A question for discussion: should a lower bound be set in mod_deflate?
I just ran a test using the Linux Documentation Project files and found
that some of the files in the test group were quite small, less that 100
bytes. When mod_deflate tackled these files, I saw a file sized increase
of between 12 and 15 bytes.
Doesn't sound like a lot, until maybe you start to add up all of those
HTML error pages we all send.
I open the floor to debate. :-)
smp
while this may be easy for the cases where the filter gets passed a
content-length header, it may be harder for the ones where it doesn't
know the size of the page before it starts compressing..
I'm cool with putting in a directive, but not sure how to write the doc's up
to say that this is a 'guidance' only and that it might be ignored.
we should also put in a directive to only compress when system load is below a certain
level. (but we would need a apr_get_system_load() function first .. any volunteers? )
