[ZODB-Dev] Using ZEO to solve problem with slow connection

[Roché Compaan]

* Steve Alexander <steve@cat-box.net> [2003-04-04 15:17]:
> 
> >First, would it make sense to zip marshalled objects before they are
> >transferred between client and server?
> 
> You can use a ssh for this. The -C option will compress the data, and 
> you can specify a NULL cipher if you don't need to encrypt the data.

I was quite aggressive with the compression level (level 9) and reads
improved with a factor of between 5 and 10 which is acceptable. Instead
of using a ssh tunnel I am going to use openvpn (http://openvpn.sf.net)
which can run as a daemon and can also compress data.

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Roché Compaan
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