On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Ken Brownfield <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Apr 7, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Michael Fischer wrote:
>>> The single-process model as regards scalability is a red herring.
>>
>> It matters a lot with SSL.  The handshaking process is very
>> CPU-intensive.  You really want something that's SMP-scalable.
>
> Run one single-process model process for each core in your machine.  You also 
> get the rather academic bonus of less context-switching and less cache thrash 
> (assuming a decent scheduler and affinity).  This is also how you would 
> leverage multiple machines.

I don't disagree with you.  But stunnel doesn't do that.

--Michael

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