On Tue, Jun 08, 1999, Carlos Henrique Bauer wrote:
> I need to specify a machine will run a SSL reverse proxy. Is there any
> benchmark relating a given machine configuration and its mod-ssl throughput?
I don't know of such benchmarks. But the throughput will be less than for
HTTP, of course. Mainly because of the SSL protocol overhead (sure) and
because for HTTPS I/O optimizations like writev() cannot be used (because
OpenSSL's BIO stuff currently doesn't support this).
Ralf S. Engelschall
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