Slow downloads over SSL

B.R. reallfqq-nginx at yahoo.fr
Sun Feb 1 20:44:15 UTC 2015


Your config snippet does not say a thing about how your server(s) handle
HTTP and HTTPS.
Do they serve the same content the same way?
Where are performance details (including network trace)?
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*B. R.*

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 8:04 PM, rafaelr <nginx-forum at nginx.us> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to find answers to a problem that I'm currently experiencing in
> all my servers. Downloads offered over HTTPS are at least 4 times slower
> than those delivered over HTTP. All these servers are running nginx/1.6.2.
> Here is my nginx.conf in case someone have experienced something similar
> and
> could give me a hint. By the way, when I say 4 x slower I'm being
> optimistic... I can download 4-5MB/s over HTTP while https download are
> 600-700kb/s the fastest I've seen.
>
> user www-data;
> worker_processes 2;
> pid /run/nginx.pid;
> worker_rlimit_nofile 4096;
>
> events {
>         worker_connections 1024;
>         multi_accept on;
>         use epoll;
> }
>
> http {
>
>         # SSL Configuration
>         ###################
>         ssl_buffer_size 8k;
>         ssl_session_cache    shared:SSL_CACHE:20m;
>         ssl_session_timeout  4h;
>         ssl_session_tickets on;
>         ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
>         ssl_ciphers ALL:!ADH:!EXP:!LOW:!RC2:!3DES:!SEED:!RC4:+HIGH:+MEDIUM;
>         ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
>
>
>         # Custom Settings
>         #################
>
>         open_file_cache max=10000 inactive=20s;
>         open_file_cache_valid 30s;
>         open_file_cache_min_uses 2;
>         open_file_cache_errors on;
>         charset UTF-8;
>
>         client_body_buffer_size 128K;
>         client_header_buffer_size 1k;
>         client_max_body_size 25m;
>         large_client_header_buffers 4 8k;
>
>         fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
>         fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
>         fastcgi_read_timeout 120s;
>
>         client_body_timeout         20;
>         client_header_timeout   20;
>         keepalive_timeout       25;
>         send_timeout            20;
>         reset_timedout_connection on;
>
>
>         # Basic Settings
>         ################
>
>         sendfile on;
>         tcp_nopush on;
>         tcp_nodelay on;
>         types_hash_max_size 2048;
>         server_tokens off;
>
>         server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
>         server_name_in_redirect off;
>
>         include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
>         default_type application/octet-stream;
>
>
>         # Logging Settings
>         ##################
>
>         access_log off;
>         error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
>
>
>         # Gzip Settings
>         ###############
>
>         gzip on;
>         #gzip_disable "msie6";
>         gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
>         gzip_vary on;
>         gzip_proxied any;
>         gzip_comp_level 5;
>         gzip_buffers 16 8k;
>         gzip_http_version 1.1;
>         gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json
> application/x-javascript
> text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript
> application/javascript;
>
>
>         # Virtual Host Configs
>         ######################
>
>         include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
>         include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
> }
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum:
> http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,256386,256386#msg-256386
>
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