SSL Session Cache on Windows

[Igal @ Lucee.org]

Thank you, Maxim, for your reply.

> It's not really a big deal though, as 
> ssl_session_cache with builtin cache was available all the time, 
> and there is no serious difference as it's not possible to use 
> multiple worker processes on Windows.
Based on that statement I will not bother with that setting for now.

Thanks again,


Igal

On 5/16/2015 8:31 PM, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> I know that in the past the directive:
>>
>>     ssl_session_cache   shared:SSL:1m;
>>
>> did not work on Windows.
>>
>> in nginx 1.9.0 I see "*) Feature: shared memory can now be used on
>> Windows versions with address space layout randomization."
>>
>> does that mean that ssl_session_cache can be used on Windows now?  if
>> so, is 1m a good value?
> Yes, now ssl_session_cache with shared cache can be used on all 
> versions of Windows.  It's not really a big deal though, as 
> ssl_session_cache with builtin cache was available all the time, 
> and there is no serious difference as it's not possible to use 
> multiple worker processes on Windows.
>
> The 1m is expected to store about 4000 sessions, see 
> http://nginx.org/r/ssl_session_cache.  This is enough assuming 
> less sessions are created during ssl_session_timeout (5m by 
> default).
>