nginx ssl handshake vs apache

[Igor Sysoev]

On Apr 21, 2014, at 12:46 , Igor Sysoev wrote:

> On Apr 20, 2014, at 21:17 , Lukas Tribus wrote:
> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> I was watching this video by fastly ceo http://youtu.be/zrSvoQz1GOs?t=24m44s
>>> he talks about the nginx ssl handshake versus apache and comes to the
>>> conclusion that apache was more efficient at mass handshakes due to
>>> nginx blocking while it calls back to openssl
>>> 
>>> I was hoping to get other people's opinion on this and find out if what
>>> he says is accurate or not
>> 
>> I would be interested in opinions/statements about this as well.
> 
> nginx worker blocks on SSL handshake as well as on disk I/O. But in contrast
> to the disk I/O during the handshake you can not do anything else on this CPU
> at this time until CPU time share slice will end for the current process/thread.
> If a typical time share slice is 1ms and the 1024-bit key handshake time is 0.5ms
> then the chances that another process/thread is able to run on the same CPU are 25%.

Sorry, 50%.

> The lesser handshake time the lesser chances.


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