Hey J,

If your server is IIS there will be a performance hit as it gets started. It
will compress all your files and place them in one folder and serve the
compressed files from there. It should settle down after a short period of time.


--- In exceptional-performance@yahoogroups.com, Brian Williams <brian@...>
wrote:
>
> Just as a reminder, I would make sure that only the things that need to
> be gzipped should be sent through the gzip component - i.e. restrict the
> gzip with a Files or FilesMatch -- there is no point in gzipping a zip,
> iso, rar, tar, bz2, pdf, img, etc so only include the file types you
> want gzipped (css, js, txt, html,php, etc)
>
>
> ASKME wrote:
> >
> >
> > I forgot to ask, over what period of time was the spike measured? It
> > is possible that turning on that option forced IIS to reload all the
> > config data, etc. That would cause an increase in load for anywhere
> > from a few seconds to a few minutes.
> >
> > --- In exceptional-performance@yahoogroups.com
> > <mailto:exceptional-performance%40yahoogroups.com>, "ASKME"
> > <Cstolworthy@> wrote:
> > >
> > > While you can expect a small increase in CPU and memory usage, it
> > should not be significant. Turning it on for our servers add ~1% more
> > load, and about that in memory. If you are seeing more than that I
> > would look more at your server setup.
> > >
> > > --- In exceptional-performance@yahoogroups.com
> > <mailto:exceptional-performance%40yahoogroups.com>, "amiwebguy"
> > <amiwebguy@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Our sys admin turned on gzip and saw an immediate spike in memory
> > usage and then turned it off. Any gotchas or recommendations in
> > turning this on?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > J
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>