[lug] SSL/https speed

[Sean Reifschneider]

Yes, that was meant as a comparison.  100 SSL connections, thousands of
non-SSL connections.

Sean

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:41:06PM -0600, David Trowbridge wrote:
>Tux is doing 13000 on normal HTTP connections - it does not support
>SSL/https yet.
>
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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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