Question about the "compress" setting MIME-Version: 1.0

[JM...@gkservices.com]

We currently have an app in prod using the original servlet filer 
described at 
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/11/19/filters.html?page=3  , and 
I know  from the comments to the article in the link that there may be 
some issues with 
it. My question is; how does the built-in tomcat implementation, which is 
activated by the compress="true" attribute on the default http1.1 
connector improve on the servlet filter mentioned above. For context, I 
should mention that  we're running on Windows 2003 server, sp1 using 
Apache Tomcat/5.0.28 on on dual Intel Xeon processor with 4Gb of RAM. 
Under various memory settings ranging from giving the heap from any 
interval of  800 - 1500 MB of heap space, the Tomcat server will die more 
or less silently under even moderate load (heavy load kills it almost 
immediately).
Any help would be appreciated, and as I've mentioned (username jmonstad) 
on the IRC channel, I may be willing to entertain engagements from local 
to Minneapolis, US gurus for $'s