From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1679 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2003 22:05:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 1672 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2003 22:05:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO molenda.com) (192.220.74.81) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 5 Feb 2003 22:05:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 10055 invoked by uid 19025); 5 Feb 2003 22:05:30 -0000 Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 22:05:00 -0000 From: Jason Molenda To: Gerald Pfeifer , overseers@gcc.gnu.org, Geoff Keating , Janis Johnson Subject: Re: Apache handling of .txt.gz Message-ID: <20030205140530.A9391@molenda.com> References: <20030130181313.7d3c5820.bkoz@redhat.com> <20030130182059.C23205@synopsys.com> <200301312245.h0VMjla05130@desire.geoffk.org> <200302040231.h142VPg27860@desire.geoffk.org> <20030205101225.A65471@molenda.com> <20030205181753.GH15400@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030205181753.GH15400@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:17:54PM -0500 X-SW-Source: 2003-q1/txt/msg00252.txt.bz2 On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:17:54PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > I haven't loaded mod_gzip since we upgraded sourceware. I've been sort > of wondering if someone would notice and complain. I suspect that this > is related. > The fact that mod_gzip isn't loaded leads me to believe it's not related, but I haven't really looked at all. Geoff's explanation is as likely as anything I can think of. The lack of mod_gzip isn't something people will notice unless they perpetually bring up old mailing list index pages or documentation, and even then they're more likely to assume the net is just slow. For instance, http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-01/index.html is 370kbytes. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-01/index.html.gz is 40kbytes. The end user will never realize that the page loaded 10x faster than it really should have when they get the .gz, but users over slow links are going to be a lot happier getting the compressed version. The same thing is done for all the documentation in gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs (and maybe the same for gdb's as well). J