[lug] SSL/https speed

[David Trowbridge]

Tux is doing 13000 on normal HTTP connections - it does not support
SSL/https yet.

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David Trowbridge
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> 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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> Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo at tummy.com>
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