[gentoo-server] Apache with SSL scaling

[Sven Vermeulen]

Hi all,

We're trying to deploy an environment on a two 1.5Ghz PIV with 4Gb of
memory. However, we're noticing that we quickly reach a maximum load for
SSL-requests on the webserver alone.

We maxed out on around 1800 active HTTPS sessions who generated around 130
requests (GET/POST) per second. Is this to be expected for this
configuration? A higher load drops connections (the SSL cache can't handle
more load), our number of Apache clients/threads scales well - we have an
average of 320 threads (13 processes, each 25 threads) at any point of
time.

We are using the plain Apache (2.0) with the built-in SSL support.

Wkr,
    Sven Vermeulen
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