Hi,

today I have tested nginx and apache compression behavior with proxied requests and wasn't very happy that apache beats nginx :-/

/usr/sbin/ab2 -t 60 -c 5 -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip' URL

Server Software: nginx/0.5.0 (with compression level 2) Requests per second: 17.70 [#/sec] (mean)

Server Software: Apache with deflate output filter Requests per second: 20.16 [#/sec] (mean)

Without compression nginx beats apache, with the same proxied request ;-):

/usr/sbin/ab2 -t 60 -c 5 SAME_URL

Server Software: nginx/0.5.0 Requests per second: 12.63 [#/sec] (mean)

Server Software: Apache with deflate output filter Requests per second: 11.26 [#/sec] (mean)

nginx.conf [snipped]

--- gzip on; gzip_types text/plain text/css application/x-javascript text/xml; gzip_proxied any; gzip_comp_level 2; proxy_buffering off;

---

Default apache conf from 'make install'.

How can I tune the gzip filter module to come to apache req/s, if it's possible?!

I have seen some options in the src which I haven't found in the doc:

gzip_no_buffer? gzip_window? gzip_hash?

Could this help?!

Regards

Aleks