Re: Mod_ssl and how to reduce overhead

Dave paris <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-ssl.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In an earlier note, you said that it was 10K-100K *concurrent* users.

a) that's a magnitude of difference, see if you can get better numbers 
from whomever is doing the marketing/project planning.
b) ain't no way you're going to do that many *CONCURRENT* transactions 
on a single box.

-d

Pigeon wrote:
> Hmm.. 10k -100k are pretty much  guaranteed numbers..
> 
> So my main computer crunching will be done at the beginning? (and to 
> relive this I can do session key caching.. how long can I cache a key? 
> is this 'secure'?)  (also.. all transfers will be ~15megs in size)
> 
> And using a single server is out of the question?
> 
> If we just go with one server.. shouldn't it be something super fast.. 
> amd64 1gig ram?
> 
> thanks!
> Lee
> 
> 
>>
>> On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, 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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