Le mardi 29 décembre 2009 à 22:14 +0100, Andreas Schuldei a écrit :
> i have 8 cores, 18gig ram and a fully switched gigabit network with a
> foundry big iron switch.
> i would think that is plenty.

Perfect. In your case, the output is quite low, so I agree there is a
problem somewhere.

> why would it be a problem to have apache on the same machine? that is
> the whole point of ipsec transport mode: to provide a secure
> host-to-host transport. 

Only for performance issues (if you need very high-speed), my natural
guess would be to use a dedicated gateway with hardware encryption
(using only supported cyphers) with a cross-cable to a dedicated
webserver. 

My guess is that there is something wrong with your Apache
configuration. It should not reach 90% of CPU usage. Try
apache2-mpm-prefork and tweak Apache process memory. But I guess you
already tried it?

I don't know the impact of shared memory on strongSwan. I don't know to
what extent strongSwan is multithreaded and I did not look at the code.

Anyway, I cannot help you further, my knowledge in strongSwan is too
little. When this is fixed, it would be nice to write a performance
HOWTO.

Bye, Jean-Michel

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