Thanks Mark > - Put an SSL-terminating appliance in front of your web server. This could > help, especially if the appliance does much of its work in specialized > hardware. this is the only solution I can see as of now. I am really surprised that Apache is not handling SSL requests efficiently! On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Mark Montague <mark@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On April 6, 2011 0:12 , Ishita Kapadiya <ishimegh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I tried to test apache with stress test using JMETER and >> results are not really good compared to sun one web server 6.1 running >> on the same machine. >> >> i guess worker mpm should work better than prefork..right? I didn't >> try prefork yet but do you think it's worth to check with that mpm >> once? I have tried so many things to tune config but all the time no >> better result than shown above for apache. You can see sun one web >> server had better numbers in each fields. > > Hopefully someone else will have better ideas than me. But my guess is that > there is nothing wrong with your configuration: I get results similar to > yours in terms of the time required for an HTTPS benchmark divided by the > time for an HTTP benchmark (both using a fairly recent build of httpd > 2.3.12-dev). Performance measurements that have been published on > stackoverflow.com and other sites also show a similar ratio. So you may > have found a situation where the code for Sun ONE Web Server is better than > Apache HTTP Server. > > My suggestions include: > > - Is this a problem that is actually negatively affecting you in the real > world, or is it just something that you feel "should be" faster? If it is > not actually causing real-world problems, I recommend ignoring the > performance difference. My situation is different from yours, but I have > run many large, active sites that only use HTTPS (no HTTP) and this > performance difference has never caused me actual problems. > > - Put an SSL-terminating appliance in front of your web server. This could > help, especially if the appliance does much of its work in specialized > hardware. > > - Investigate the mod_ssl and openssl code plus TLS protocol dumps and see > if you can determine where the performance bottleneck is, then re-write the > code to fix the problem. Or see if someone else (perhaps on the developers' > list) has the time and interest to take this on as a project instead. > > Sorry I can't give you better answers. > > -- > Mark Montague > mark@xxxxxxxxxxx > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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