In a related note. What experiences have people had with cards already out there?
Which were easy to install/configure? Just looking for some recommendations. Thank you. --Alfonso -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Francois Rejete Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 5:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pound Mailing List] Performance and Hardware SSL 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. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by SecureMail, and is believed to be clean. -- To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [email protected]. Please contact [email protected] for questions.
