Make sure you enable session caching, and disable all the low-capability
ciphers. Here's what I have in my nsd.tcl (note particularly the
ServerCipherSuite and ServerSessionCache* params):
ns_param ServerPort $httpsport
ns_param ServerHostname $hostname
ns_param ServerAddress $address
ns_param ServerCertFile certfile.pem
ns_param ServerKeyFile keyfile.pem
ns_param ServerProtocols All
ns_param ServerCipherSuite \
"ALL:!ADH:!EXP56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL"
ns_param ServerSessionCache true
ns_param ServerSessionCacheID 1
ns_param ServerSessionCacheSize 512
ns_param ServerSessionCacheTimeout 300
ns_param ServerPeerVerify false
ns_param ServerPeerVerifyDepth 3
ns_param ServerCADir ca
ns_param ServerCAFile ca.pem
ns_param ServerTrace false