Hi Phil,
> Hello all:
>
> we are rolling out a new system and are testing the SSL performance with
> some strange results. This is all being performed on a cloud hypervisor
> instance with the following:
You are saying nginx listens on 443 (SSL) and 80, and you connect to those
ports directly from ab. Where in that picture is haproxy?
> Have tried adding the option prefer-last-server but that did not make a
> great deal of difference. Any thoughts please as to what could be wrong ?
Without keepalive it won't make any difference. Enable keepalive with ab (-k).
Lukas
