Does anyone have any experience in using compression on their cached data? I understand that stackoverflow is internally using this method.
What are the pros and cons?
And are there any gotchyas?
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A:
you should try memcached. It's a distributed caching server that is easy to use and provides impressive compression capabilities.
Manu
2008-10-22 23:54:38
Is memcached worth while if only using a single server?
Harry
2008-10-23 01:38:33
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A:
Scott Hanselman just created a Session wrapper class that can zip items before putting them into your cache/session/whatever. You may want to take a look!
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheWeeklySourceCode35ZipCompressingASPNETSessionAndCacheState.aspx
EndangeredMassa
2008-10-22 23:56:13
Hanselman notes that you can get data expansion from the built-in DeflateStream (or GZipStream, whatever he used). As I have posted elsewhere, this is a known anomaly. https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/Workaround.aspx?FeedbackID=93930 You need a different stream to avoid it.
Cheeso
2009-03-06 16:29:31