Brion Vibber wrote:
A few hours ago Tim changed how the wiki handles
output buffering and
compression so that a Content-Length HTTP header can be sent.
The primary benefit of this is that the Squid proxies in Amsterdam and
Seoul will be better able to maintain persistent connections to Tampa,
which should improve performance for logged-in visitors in Europe and Asia.
Here's a graph showing the effect on the service time histogram:
https://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Image:Service_time_histogram_keepalive.p…
Maybe not as large as I had hoped, but it's certainly a step in the right
direction.
-- Tim Starling
