Thanks for the response. Although I expected a pretty decent difference
between HTTP and HTTPS I didnt realize it would be so significant. Both
machines are small P3 2ghz boxes, the client side is running Ubuntu. They
are connected to the same switch. For the ab options I am running
ab -n 1000 -c
What hardwre are you using for the client and the server? are you running
ab from localhost? What options are you using with ab?
Most of the CPU cycles in each transaction are going to be spent in the SSL
handshake. I just did a quick test of one of my servers running 1.3.37 on a
dual Xeon 3.0
Hello,
I am having some issues with my SSL implementation on a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE
system. I am currently running the following software
Server Version: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) PHP/5.1.6 with Suhosin-Patch
mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7e-p1
All built from ports. In testing of the web applica
