mod_gzip

[dsotmoon]

is mod_gzip necessary? i had a couple of days where my load spiked real high, up to 50, usually runs 2 or under, i was getting alot of requests to the forums 150+ users

my server admins said mod_gzip caused this and they disabled it, havent had any problems since, is this different than zlib/gzip that compresses the forums and if so is there any benefit to having it or not?

thanks
Joe

[kerplunk]

mod_gzip is poorly written and does have a negative effect on server load, but it is meant to speed up webpage loading time for the website visitors, which it does well. I highly doubt it would make your load averages go from 2 to 50, though. When I used it (back in the day) I had no such problem.

[eva2000]

mod_gzip is fine by itself but if you have vB admincp gzip enabled too then both together will drive up server loads as you only need one of them either mod_gzip to compress files server wide or vB admincp gzip which compresses only vB files