On Fri, Jul 30, 1999, Timothy Canfield wrote:
> I would love to use apache and mod ssl for new site I'm putting up.
> However I ran some performance tests on it and am a little worried about
> the numbers I saw.
>
> I was only able to open about 8 connections per second, and this was
> swamping the processor (p3 450).
>
> With 20K files, I was able to get less than 1 Mbit per second (about 7
> hits per second, and again this was swamping the processor).
>
> Are these the type of numbers I should expect, or does it seem as if I
> have things misconfigured?
I've no numbers at hand, so I cannot say whether 8 conn/sec are ok or bad. But
at least you when you count it: 8 conn/sec = 480 conn/min. High-traffic
websites have around 1000 conn/min for HTTP traffic AFAIK. So half the amount
for HTTPS should be fine when you take the SSL handshake overhead into
account, too. OTOH you can certainly speed it up. For instance use the shared
memory session cache. Increase the expiry time. Make sure SSLRandomSeed
doesn't read from a blocking device (use the builtin source), etc.pp.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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