On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 03:48:11PM +0100, Albe Laurenz wrote: > > I experimented some more on a recent system (RHEL6, OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips), > and it is as you say. Disabling OpenSSL compression in the source (which > is possible since OpenSSL 1.0.0) does not give me any performance > improvement. > > Seems you pretty much have to live with at most 1/4 of the performance > if you want to SELECT large images using SSL. > > Yours, > Laurenz Albe > Have you tried different ciphers? RC4 is much lighter weight CPU-wise then the typically negotiated cipher. AES128 is also not bad if you have the newer Intel chips with the hardware encryption support. Just another thing to check. Regards, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance