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On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 06:45:08AM -0800, pb wrote:
> --- Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > The SSL_accept operation is the bottleneck for non-hardware SSL
> > processing, SSL_accept handles the private key which costs very
> > much. The hw accel cards offload atleast this processing (the engine
> > is used internally from SSL_accept) but we continue to call SSL_read
> > and SSL_write without using the hw engine.
>
> Would an SMP system make a difference such that the OS and general I/O
> is not bogged down?
Surely the problem is CPU and not I/O so to that end one would expect
that an SMP machine would help.
--
Horms
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