How powerful is the machine you are running on?

In general, you could see a significant decrease in performance when
enabling SSL depending on the hardware. We did some load testing on a single
CPU machine with SSL enabled and were getting poor performance (Apache was
taking up about 80% of the CPU cycles).  We off-loaded that to a dedicated
hardware SSL Accelerator and saw a significant increase in performance.
Unfortunately, I'm at home so I don't have the numbers with me.

But yes, your numbers are probably reflecting reality correctly as far as
what I have seen in our testing.

-Scott

On 3/9/07, Patrick Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Apologies in advance, I know this is a topic (SSL) this is greatly
misunderstood and generates more than it's fair share of questions.
We've never had a problem with CAS 2 performance, even though we run
tomcat 5.0.28 with nothing in front on JDK 1.4.2.  We foolishly never did
any baseline performance testing with httperf.  We finally ran into a
problem and started to do some testing.

It came down to this, just hitting /cas/login :
SSL: 11 connection/sec
No SSL: 150+ connections/sec

Question: Is this basically what others see?

I know the solutions, upgrade JVM, upgrade tomcat, upgrade CAS, cluster
CAS, offload SSL and I'll get there eventually.  I mainly just want to see
if my tests reflect reality (not just my own reality).

Cheers,
Pat

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