Re: Mod_ssl and how to reduce overhead

Hi,

A few words about intended usage would be of great help.

- How many concurrent users
- Type of transactions
- You really think the http front is going to be you bottle neck? or  
are there back end systems that will pose a greater problem (I would  
think so)

Why not just use a normal server as ssl accelerator? I know several  
SSL accelerator "appliancees" that are just that anyway. Unless you  
have specific keyhandling requirements (FIPS140-3 or something),  
using normal server hardware is much cheaper.

regards
martin

On 26/09/2005, at 14.35, Pigeon wrote:

> Hello, I am trying to plan a system that can handle 10k-100k users.
>
> I am only using apache w/mod-ssl
>
> What should I look at to reduce overhead of bandwidth/cpu/mem?
>
> At what point should I look at ssl accelerators?
>
> Should I definitly look at clustering?
>
> Also.. I ahve heard about ssl session key caching, anyone know how  
> much this will improve things?
>
> Any good resources I can read?
>
>
> thanks!
> Lee  
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