Hey,

I've set apache up to use SSL with a self signed certificate.

With http (KeepAlive off), I can get over 5000 requests per second. However, with https, I can only get 13 requests per second.

I know there is supposed to be a bit of an overhead, but this seems abnormal. Can anyone suggest how I might go about debugging this.

Here is the ab log for https:

Server Software:        Apache/2.2.3
Server Hostname:        127.0.0.1
Server Port:            443
SSL/TLS Protocol:       TLSv1/SSLv3,DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA,4096,256

Document Path:          /hello.html
Document Length:        29 bytes

Concurrency Level:      5
Time taken for tests:   30.49425 seconds
Complete requests:      411
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      119601 bytes
HTML transferred:       11919 bytes
Requests per second:    13.68 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       365.565 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       73.113 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          3.86 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:      190  347  74.3    333     716
Processing:     0   14  24.0      1     166
Waiting:        0   11  21.6      0     165
Total:        191  361  80.8    345     716

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    345
  66%    377
  75%    408
  80%    421
  90%    468
  95%    521
  98%    578
  99%    596
 100%    716 (longest request)