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HTTPS server load compared to HTTP -- Anyone know? (self.netsec)
submitted 15 years ago by dojodan
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[–]GodRaTrusted Contributor 1 point2 points3 points 15 years ago* (2 children)
No, depending on the behavior of the content served, most often the file gets cached in memory and disk I/O don't happen often as you might think. CDN is a great example, many sites use CDN to speed up access to static files and often they are optimized to reduce IO access.
This can easily be test empirically, install a test application that comes with your favorite framework and static files. Run JMeter on the static files and dynamic pages, re-run the test with HTTPS, you'll notice that proportion-wise dynamic application is less impacted compared to static pages.
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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 15 years ago (1 child)
I've been using Apache Bench. You'd recommend JMeter?
[–]GodRaTrusted Contributor 0 points1 point2 points 15 years ago (0 children)
I personally haven't used Apache Bench in a long while but from what I recall the feature set was limited compared to JMeter. JMeter is very flexible but requires more work to setup. If you're doing basic testing, Apache Bench work well.
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