Re: Mod_ssl and how to reduce overhead

Cliff Woolley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-ssl.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Also.. I ahve heard about ssl session key caching, anyone know how much this
> will improve things?

Session caching is more or less essential for any kind of reasonable
SSL performance.  Disabling the session cache will hurt your SSL perf
by perhaps as much as an order of magnitude (roughly speaking -- it's
been a long time since I benchmarked it).

--Cliff
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