Pilot
Sun 12th May '02, 3:36am
I like the effect of turning VB GZIP on, in terms of less bandwidth and effectively much faster responses as my server is a lot of IP hops away from my users.
But I am concerned at the CPU load that it causes. Now I realise this is a tradeoff but it would be great if the VB GZIP option was more selective - for example:
1 - Set a CPU %busy threshold so that if a request comes in and the CPU is over that threshold then GZIP is not used - that way at busy times you are not making things worse for the CPU. This would be an automatic load limiting effect but without stopping people using the site.
2 - Allow the GZIP option to apply to certain users or groups of users (eg admin, moderators, members, guests) selectively - so the mods can have faster responses without the guests killing the CPU for example.
3 - Apply the GZIP option to certain forums only.
But I am concerned at the CPU load that it causes. Now I realise this is a tradeoff but it would be great if the VB GZIP option was more selective - for example:
1 - Set a CPU %busy threshold so that if a request comes in and the CPU is over that threshold then GZIP is not used - that way at busy times you are not making things worse for the CPU. This would be an automatic load limiting effect but without stopping people using the site.
2 - Allow the GZIP option to apply to certain users or groups of users (eg admin, moderators, members, guests) selectively - so the mods can have faster responses without the guests killing the CPU for example.
3 - Apply the GZIP option to certain forums only.