very heavy load

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I'm working on a FreeBSD 4.4 machine running Apache with mod_ssl.
Apache/1.3.22 (Unix)
OpenSSL 0.9.6a 5 Apr 2001
mod_ssl-2.8.5-1.3.22

The server also does mysql and some other services. It is a Xeon 750 with 1gb of ram.

When the link to ssl is being used from the website server load goes from
about .90 to 35-45.

This makes the server deathly slow. there are Images on that page but not
many.

Where do I go from here? This load seems really high.

HampshireCollege.student("Mikel Waxler");

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Re: very heavy load

Fixed my own problem,
The ssl_engine_log was taking 2-3 seconds when generating entropy. I
changed the mod_ssl configuration in httpd.conf so that
sslrandomseed came from /dev/urandom instead of builtin.

This seems to have fixed the problem.



On Fri, 31 May 2002, Mikel Waxler wrote:

> Note: PLease CC replies. I am posting from off list.
>
> I'm working on a FreeBSD 4.4 machine running Apache with mod_ssl.
> Apache/1.3.22 (Unix)
> OpenSSL 0.9.6a 5 Apr 2001
> mod_ssl-2.8.5-1.3.22
>
> The server also does mysql and some other services. It is a Xeon 750 with 1gb of ram.
>
> When the link to ssl is being used from the website server load goes from
> about .90 to 35-45.
>
> This makes the server deathly slow. there are Images on that page but not
> many.
>
> Where do I go from here? This load seems really high.
>
> HampshireCollege.student("Mikel Waxler");
>
>
>

HampshireCollege.student("Mikel Waxler");

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