Re: Tux unstablity and bugs

[Jorge Nerín <comandante@zaralinux.com>]

Kees Hoekzema wrote:

>Hey list,
>
>I'm running Tux now for a couple of days and noticed some strange things.
>
[...]

>So I started playing with compression. I made a gzipped file of every 
image
>(find rocks ;)) and turned on compression. After I while I got complaints
>from users who couldn't saw images. So I did some ab's on the images and
>couldn't see the problem (more than 10k req/s actually). Next I used IE to
>reload the images and on a page with +60 images it took more than 4 
minutes
>to get them all. I don't know what exactly caused it, but when i 
turned off
>the compression, IE was able to reload the page including the images 
in less
>than a second.
>
I can answer you only in that question. I also know that behaviour, but
I know why it happens, if you use wget (search the list for my lasts
posts) you can see that tux sends back the gzipped file but repports the
size of the uncompressed file, so the app that it's donwloading waits
until a timeout happens for the rest of the file.

>I hope someone can enlighten me :)
>
>Kees Hoekzema
>
>
I found that behaviour long time ago and reported it to the list in hope
that someone wich better knowledge and more free time than me toke taht
over me, but I'm still waiting for some free time to investigate and
resolve it, I'm pretty sure that it must be damn easy once I find the
spot to change.

Regards.

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Jorge Nerin
<comandante@zaralinux.com>