Re: output buffering / output compression

On Thu, June 9, 2005 12:22 am, Paul Birnstihl said: > I have recently set up a machine with PHP with both buffering and > compression turned on. Some of the pages being served include up to 3MB > of HTML. > > Can someone explain the benefit(s) of setting these ini directives to > values (ie. larger than 4kb) rather than "On" ? > > I've played around with it as I thought it might speed things up by > using a bigger buffer etc. but the only difference I noticed is a big > jump in memory usage. If you somehow manage to spew out more than 3MB before you try to call header() or session_start() or whatever, then the buffer got dumped, and it's too late. At least, that's how I think it would work... But I never turn buffering on anyway, so what do I know? -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm