Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Performance Tuning, Sizing, and Scaling Guide

SSL Performance Test: Perl CGI

This test was conducted with Perl script called printenv.pl that prints the CGI environment in SSL mode. The test was performed in SSL mode with the SSL session cache enabled. The goal was to saturate the cores on the server and find out the respective throughput and response time.

The following table shows the SSL Perl CGI test results.

Table 6–17 SSL Performance Test: Perl CGI Scalability

Number of Cores 

Average Throughput (ops/sec) 

Average Response Time (ms) 

303 

329 

580 

344 

830 

361 

The following is a graphical representation of Perl scalability with SSL.

PHP CGI Scalability With SSL- Number of cores