[lug] SSL/https speed

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 04:27:11PM -0600, Kyle Moore wrote:
>Does anyone have any idea or a source for relative speed between http
>and https? 

I believe I've heard that a 700MHz P3 can handle just under 100 SSL
connections per second.  I seem to recall that some monster boxes are doing
something around 4,500 Apache connections per second, with Tux reporting
13,000.

Basically, http has to do everything that HTTP does, but it also does a
bunch of math on large numbers for every connection as well.  SSL is MUCH
slower than http.

Sean
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