On 5/15/06, Kyle Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
With 2000 simultaneous connections, your limit would be the kernel,
not the encryption. :)

well, with modern *nix kernels this is not a big problem anymore,
but we also don't target that many simultaneous connections either
right now, so...

-Kyle H

On 5/14/06, Joseph Oreste Bruni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I put together a multi-way messaging system supporting over 2000
> simultaneous persistent connections. During my initial design, I was
> concerned that the encryption would become an issue, especially with
> that many connections. So, we purchased some pretty burly hardware to
> support the application ( Dual 2.0 GHz Xserve G5 ). It turns out that
> the encryption has almost no impact on performance and that machine
> spends most of its time at 95% idle.
>
> :)
>
>
> On May 14, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Kyle Hamilton wrote:
>
> > Most of the time
> > you'll find the bottlenecks aren't in the SSL/TLS layer at all.
>
>
>
>
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