tree 9cf0f077ad1d5bfb3a714b7c8cb432ff3fce8e47
parent a6bd1a1c4075271cb0713b6099c44a9d538e619f
author Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> 1361429169 +0100
committer Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> 1361429593 +0100
encoding latin1

MINOR: ssl: add a global tunable for the max SSL/TLS record size

Add new tunable "tune.ssl.maxrecord".

Over SSL/TLS, the client can decipher the data only once it has received
a full record. With large records, it means that clients might have to
download up to 16kB of data before starting to process them. Limiting the
record size can improve page load times on browsers located over high
latency or low bandwidth networks. It is suggested to find optimal values
which fit into 1 or 2 TCP segments (generally 1448 bytes over Ethernet
with TCP timestamps enabled, or 1460 when timestamps are disabled), keeping
in mind that SSL/TLS add some overhead. Typical values of 1419 and 2859
gave good results during tests. Use "strace -e trace=write" to find the
best value.

This trick was first suggested by Mike Belshe :

   http://www.belshe.com/2010/12/17/performance-and-the-tls-record-size/

Then requested again by Ilya Grigorik who provides some hints here :

   http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449344764/_transport_layer_security_tls.html#ch04_00000101