[erlang-questions] SSL memory consumption

[Tony Rogvall]

Is this the old or new ssl ? 
The old is using openssl. openssl consume a lot of memory for init buffers 
it uses about 35K - 50K per connection just for buffer memory. This is not 
counting the need for certificates etc. Just to give you some base line.

I do agree that 170k per connection is a bit to much ;-)

/Tony


On 23 dec 2010, at 22.21, Kaiduan Xie wrote:

> Hi, all,
> 
> I found SSL consumes a lot of memory per SSL connection. The following
> is the observation,
> 
> 1. 10K SSL connections, for each SSL connection, a gen_fsm is started
> to listen on SSL socket to receive the data.
> 2. Before accepting SSL connection, the server consumes 515M memory.
> 3. After 10K SSL connections, the server consumes 2.2G memory.
> 4. All SSL connections are idle, no traffic is carried on the connection.
> 
> So each SSL connection consumes about 170 K, I think this number is a
> little bit high.
> 
> The information about test environment is listed below,
> 
> 1. kaiduanx@REDACTED:/usr/include/openssl$ uname -a
> Linux dell-xps-7100 2.6.35-23-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24
> 11:55:36 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 2. system has 4 G memory
> 3. Erlang R14A (erts-5.8) [source] [64-bit] [smp:6:6] [rq:6]
> [async-threads:0] [kernel-poll:true]
> 4. ssl:version().
> {ok,{"4.0","OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010",
>     "OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010"}}
> 
> 
> Eshell V5.8  (abort with ^G)
> 
> Any idea on why each SSL connection consumes so many memory? Please
> share your comment and experience.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> /Kaiduan
> 
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