Re: [Erlyaws-list] limitations of SSL in Yaws ??

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thanks Claes...
thats just the kind of confident response I was hoping for ;-)..

BTW, I listened to your BSD radio interview...glad to hear yaws =20
getting the word out to the masses.  If you can call the BSD =20
community massive...all is relative when your sitting on an erlang =20
rock. ;-)
The most important thing I learned from the audiocast is that Claes =20
is not pronounced "Claws".  I doubt I can yet pronounce your name =20
correctly, but I do know that "Claws" isn't correct ;-)
thanks again, ke han

On Aug 28, 2006, at 8:20 PM, Claes Wikstr=F6m wrote:

> ke han wrote:
>> I'm about to develop a yaws app which will serve most of its pages =20=

>> as  as HTTPS.  Pretty much everything expect the home page.
>> I would like to know any concerns/limitations of the underlying =20
>> SSL  used by Yaws.
>> I have seen old erlang maillist posts such as:
>> http://erlang.org/ml-archive/erlang-questions/200311/msg00252.html
>> This post seem to indicate the issue is needing to tune erlang to  =20=

>> handle a large number of sockets.
>> Anything else I should know about for handling large numbers of =20
>> HTTPS  requests?
>
> The OTP SSL implementation isn't the best in town. It's ok
> but it has had a number of obscure bugs over the years.
> we've built several high traffic SSL sites with yaws + ssl
> and also submitted a number of small but crucial ssl bugfixes
> to the otp group.
>
> As it stands now, all should be ok.
>
> As for that old post that had FD_SETSIZE set to 256, it
> doesn't sound really up to date. Also, looking at the code
> in esock_poll.c it seems as if OTP ssl now use poll instead
> of select() so, the number of SSL sockets should really be
> limited by the max num open fds for that unix process which
> is tunable to very high number in most modern unices.
>
>
> /klacke
>
>
>
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