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I tried real hard to find some data on the effect, speed, anything on "comp-lzo" but I could find nothing.
Only know that:
> it is automatic if enabled
> it results in the same amount of packets
So yeah, not much. Searched Google of course, but there was not much on the internet.
Basically... is it worth using? Does it actually speed up connection IF the data is compressible? (For example, web browsing. Does it help even though even my toilet paper uses HTTPS today?)
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>>62078061
compression dipshit
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LZO is a compression algorithm designed for real-time applications, which puts an emphasis of speed over compression ratio. Its use in OpenVPN is not meant to speed up the tunnel connection, but to compensate a bit for the overhead of the VPN protocol and encryption scheme, given that it compresses each packet individually, which doesn't help too much even with compressible data like plain text, because proper compression algorithms can work with many megabytes of context.
If you read into the documentation, it's still safe to enable at all times, because it only adds one byte of overhead per packet in the worst case and is automatically turned off for a while if a sequence of packets turn out incompressible (--comp-noadapt option).
https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/manuals/65-openvpn-20x-manpage.html
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>>62078253
> I don't know jackshit but I must shitpost
10/10 shitpostscore
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>>62078263
Hmmm "--comp-noadapt" is interesting indeed. I will try this now, thank you. I have felt sites load a tad bit faster, but then again it might be all placebo.
Thanks for the info as well.
Would be cool if OpenVPN had hard data (benchmarks) and some other algorithms as well.
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