question about Apache 1.3.34 mod_ssl 2.8.25 performance

All,

Having some trouble with a server running Apache 1.3.34 with mod_ssl
2.8.25 and openssl 0.9.8a - very little deviation from the standard
config except to require client certificates.

After running for a little while the server stops outputing to the log
file and then performance slows to a crawl, page loads which used to
take ~ 10 secs at startup take ~ 60 secs. Any ideas as to what could be
causing this? Any ideas on how to resolve this?

Thanks,
Ash

On 19 Jan 2006 13:27:15 -0800, Ash <ashnil.dixit.03@alum.dartmouth.org> wrote:
> After running for a little while the server stops outputing to the log
> file and then performance slows to a crawl, page loads which used to
> take ~ 10 secs at startup take ~ 60 secs. Any ideas as to what could be
> causing this? Any ideas on how to resolve this?
>
It could be a blocking random device - depending on OS, a switch from using
/dev/random to /dev/urandom might do the trick - otherwise try looking into
egd (and prngd).

vh

Mads Toftum