Re: [gentoo-server] Apache with SSL scaling

[J. Ryan Earl]

Sven Vermeulen wrote:

Hi all,
We're trying to deploy an environment on a two 1.5Ghz PIV with 4Gb of
memory. [...] We maxed out on around 1800 active HTTPS sessions who generated 
around 130
requests (GET/POST) per second. Is this to be expected for this
configuration? 

That sounds reasonable for that hardware.  Pentium4s never excelled at 
encryption and those are the lowest of the low-end.  You're probably 
reaching processor cache/memory bandwidth limits.

-ryan
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