Re: Some wird OpenSSL perfomance slowdown

[Rick Jones]

SW crypto aint cheap.  It can consume lots of CPU cycles.  If the system 
was nearly CPU saturated with a "plain" transfer, then the overhead of 
the crypto can very definitely take the throughput down considerably.

rick jones
one of these days I need to make an SSL version of netperf :)
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