SSL Hardware Acceleration usually means offloading encryption to specific dedicated hardware, most often PCI cards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSL_acceleration --- 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 > > ________________________________ > Aegate Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with > registration number 5089909, having its registered office at 123 Buckingham > Palace Road, London SW1W 9SR, England. > > This communication may contain confidential and/or privileged information > belonging to Aegate Limited. This information is intended only for the use > of the individual or entity named. If you are not the intended recipient, or > the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, > you should notify Aegate Limited immediately. You are hereby notified that > any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking of any action in reliance on > the contents of this communication is strictly prohibited. > > > -- > To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [email protected]. > Please contact [email protected] for questions. > -- To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [email protected]. Please contact [email protected] for questions.
