Re: SSL encryption makes bytea transfer slow

From: "ktm(at)rice(dot)edu" <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>
To: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
Cc: Merlin Moncure *EXTERN* <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas *EXTERN* <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SSL encryption makes bytea transfer slow
Date: 2011-11-03 15:01:53
Message-ID: 20111103150153.GD10975@staff-mud-56-27.rice.edu
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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

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