SSL Hardware Acceleration usually means offloading encryption to specific
dedicated hardware, most often PCI cards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSL_acceleration
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François Rejeté


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Daniel Keeley <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've read a few of the notes on the mailing list about hardware
> acceleration for SSL.
>
> What does this mean? Does this mean using a CPU with certain extensions? If
> so how can i confirm whether or not i've built Pound with support for those
> extensions, and even whether or not my OS supports them?
>
> I ran a quick benchmark yesterday and got impressive results.  At the
> moment I am just running on a core 2 duo laptop, yet still managed 600 trx/s
> with the same box running jmeter, pound and apache (Oh; And they were all in
> a VM!)  However we need significantly more than this throughput.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
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