I've been playing around with the latest version (very impressive, by the
way, Ralf) and I'm a bit stumped at trying to figure out performance
characteristics.  I get results similar to the ones below for SSL version 2

./openssl s_time -ssl2 -connect www-dev:443 -time 40

411 connections in 3.25s; 126.46 connections/user sec, bytes read 0
411 connections in 41 real seconds, 0 bytes read per connection

but using SSL version 3 consistently returns numbers in the neighborhood of

./openssl s_time -ssl3 -connect www-dev:443 -time 40 -new

37 connections in 18.55s; 1.99 connections/user sec, bytes read 0
37 connections in 41 real seconds, 0 bytes read per connection


I've compiled both with and without experimental support for hardware
accelerators (I won't get into that battle here - it looks like it's been
fought and fought again; if anyone wants my numbers, please email me offline)
and seem to get consistent results: ssl2 is high-capacity, ssl3 is an order of
magnitude lower.  I wouldn't rule out OpenSSL as the culprit, but it's worth
mentioning that the s_time test is able to generate all sorts of SSL3 load
against a Netscape 3.63 server on the same machine.  Any ideas as to what may
have gone wrong in my mod_ssl build?

  Thanks in advance.

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P.S.  Solaris 2.6 systems (separate machines) are being used to drive openssl
s_client and Apache/mod_ssl.  OpenSSL is at 0.9.6-eng, mod_ssl and Apache are
at mod_ssl-2.8.1-1.3.19.


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