HTTPS performance slow on the newest releases.

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 07:28:56AM -0400, michaelvv wrote:

> Hi nginx...
> 
> For sometime ago i have compared nginx/apache performance on HTTPS request.
> at that time i got ca 10 fold performance gain with nginx.
> 
> So when i installed the newest stable version it was only 20-25 % more.
> 
> Does anyone have seen this issue , the fastest version is 0.6.38 here i got the
> result from ab....
> 
> I version 0.6.38 , i got ca 800 req / sec.
> 
> 
> Server Software:        nginx/0.8.7
> Server Hostname:        192.168.1.97
> Server Port:            443
> SSL/TLS Protocol:       TLSv1/SSLv3,DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA,1024,256
> 
> Document Path:          /
> Document Length:        4 bytes
> 
> Concurrency Level:      50
> Time taken for tests:   7.025 seconds
> Complete requests:      1000
> Failed requests:        0
> Write errors:           0
> Total transferred:      220000 bytes
> HTML transferred:       4000 bytes
> Requests per second:    142.34 [#/sec] (mean)
> Time per request:       351.270  (mean)
> Time per request:       7.025  (mean, across all concurrent requests)
> Transfer rate:          30.58  received
> 
> 
> PS! proberly i need sometink added in nginx.conf , now i'm using this for SSL
> 
> ssl on;
> ssl_certificate      /usr/local/nginx/conf/*************.com.crt;
> ssl_certificate_key  /usr/local/nginx/conf/*************.com.key;
> 
> ssl_session_timeout  5m;
> ssl_protocols  SSLv3;
> ssl_ciphers  HIGH:!ADH;
> ssl_prefer_server_ciphers   on;
> 
> regards /Michael

Could you test 3 versions - 0.6.38i, 0.7.61, and 0.8.7 built with the same
OpenSSL version with the same simple configuraiton on the same host
running ab on an other host ?


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