"Michal Trojnara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> 3. Because stunnel is (as far as I can tell) a fork-model
>> application, I am not yet confident it will have the performance
>> necessary to support the volume of traffic we expect.
> Stunnel uses threads instead of processes if possible.
> Belibe me, anyway, that thread overhead is very small
> compared to cryptographic overhead.
Multi-threading makes the server's session cache useable, whereas
forking applications have to provide some caching callbacks to benefit
from sessions. So the main use of multi-threading is actually to
avoid cryptographic overhead.
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