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Originally Posted by RawAlex
of course, you could just move on to apache2 and stop worrying.
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Apache2, like the most recent versions of mySQL and to a lesser extent, PHP, tend to solve some problems while introducing others: at least until everyone catches up with them. For that reason, I must admit I tend to upgrade underlying stuff slowly.
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Originally Posted by RawAlex
It would also be interesting to see what the implications are of this strategy on CPU usage. It would appear that you are handing your server a ton of processing work to do to keep serving pages. At what point do you run out of processing before you run out of bandwidth?
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Gzip has been shown to be an efficient process and if you think about the whole cycle of delivering content, not merely about the actual compression, using gzip isn't all downside. A lot will depend on what else is in the mix, but as I noted originally (and one of my test servers is a very humble P3) I haven't seen anything negative so far and I suspect you would already be close to overloaded for the extra work this generates to become critical.