No, you shouldn't anything OVER 1 is a waste of processing power. The difference between compression level 1 and compression level 9 is .6 - .06 % on average.

Ok thanks Zach. :)

I know the default compression level of the command line gzip is 6, how does that differ from compressing pages on the fly?

When you're gziping something at the command line you're probaling doing so for a one time reason and compressing it for a move, 6 is a good number for this. However the compression difference between 1-6 could vary depending on the file type you want to compress.

Compression level 1 gets the job done on html / css very well, any higher is a waste.

Man, I added something its craped on me. Its so slow. I have PhotoPost, vbGarage, Downloads, Support and Sr Classifieds. Its kinda slow

thanks for all those that have responded to this thread. I've been very much hack happy on my dev forum but very strict and stringent as to what the needs are for the production forum.

I have about 18 products installed. here's what comes up from the debug setting. where does the memory usage come from? Is that number too high?

added vbbmicrostats and came up with:

Quote:

Page generated in 0.16144395 seconds (28.47% PHP - 71.53% MySQL) with 12 queries Users: 1 (1 members and 0 guests) | 3,434.49KB Used | GZIP ON (level 1) | 3.18 : 3.85 : 3.59 | Uncached Templates: None

Okay

How about VB Inferno Pro Shout (Lite), how does this compare with the old vbshout in terms of bandwidth usage?

AO

VBadvanced!

Not sure about anyone else. But, i tried installing VBadvanced on three seperate occasions and each time it dramatically slows down my website. Once i remove VBadvanced, my server is back to normal.

I think you're just seeing things...

By the way, just how bad on server load is vB Shout (and Lite)? Oh, and I think the Inactive User Reminder Email thing is pretty harsh on the server load as well. And your inbox.