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Hello All,

I want to get some advice on this feature. Should I enable it, and if yes, what is the best level to use?

My friend's forum that I'm helping to manage recently get notified by their hosting provider that they have consume high memory usage.

Thanks for any help/advice

Regards,

GZip compression will use more memory.
It helps by reducing the bandwidth usage, but will use more memory.

Also, are you using any plugins? Does he have any thing else on the server? MyBB by itself is a relatively low resource demanding script.


Edit: I may have been thinking CPU instead of memory, DennisTT would probably be right.

As far as I know, GZip compression makes a more significant hit on your CPU usage than memory.

At the bottom of your forum, do you see:

Quote:Generated in 0.3275211 seconds (96.93% PHP / 3.07% MySQL)
MySQL Queries: 14 / Global Parsing Time: 0.2521341 / Memory Usage: 2.84 MB
PHP version: 5.6.7 / Server Load: 0.5 / GZip Compression: Enabled

You can see the memory used to generate that page there. If you go through your board, is there a page where the number goes really high?

Alternatively you can ask your host which page uses the most memory.