RE: gzip compression (was: Re: Logging Subversion client HTTP requests)

Please note that many of the responses subversoin sends are already compressed as binary difference streams against the previous version. Gzip compression on REPORT responses isn't going to yield an average factor 5 compression rate.

Erik.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Schmidt
Sent: 01/08/2011, 09:43
To: Manuel Lemos
Cc: Andreas Krey; Erik Huelsmann; users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: gzip compression (was: Re: Logging Subversion client HTTP requests)

On Aug 1, 2011, at 02:16, Manuel Lemos wrote:

> Anyway, another odd thing is that the client always sends a request header saying it can handle HTTP compression but SubVersion servers seem to never compress responses.
>
> Given than a typical gzip encoding can compress text data about 5 times, it seemed to me there is a great opportunity to make SubVersion HTTP server accesses much faster, but that opportunity is not being addressed because SubVersion HTTP servers do not compress responses. Again I maybe missing something here.

I believe that's something you can set up in your httpd.conf if desired. It's a feature of Apache and not specific to (nor configurable from) Subversion.
Received on 2011-08-01 09:56:37 CEST