Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: "J. Ryan Earl" <ryan@×××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Apache with SSL scaling
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:24:20
Message-Id: 43C53E6F.3080001@dynaconnections.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] Apache with SSL scaling by Sven Vermeulen
1 Sven Vermeulen wrote:
2
3 >Hi all,
4 >
5 >We're trying to deploy an environment on a two 1.5Ghz PIV with 4Gb of
6 >memory. [...] We maxed out on around 1800 active HTTPS sessions who generated around 130
7 >requests (GET/POST) per second. Is this to be expected for this
8 >configuration?
9 >
10 That sounds reasonable for that hardware. Pentium4s never excelled at
11 encryption and those are the lowest of the low-end. You're probably
12 reaching processor cache/memory bandwidth limits.
13
14 -ryan
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