[Info-vax] OpenSSL CSWS-2.2-1

Thu May 2 08:25:24 EDT 2019

Den 2019-05-02 kl. 13:15, skrev Neil Rieck:
> Just thought I'd toss in my own 2-cents on the OpenSSL issue as well.
> 
> I've been playing with WASD HTTPd v11.3 as a drop in replacement for
> CSWS-2.2-1
> 
> First off, WASD is a hackers delight because it is published with all
> the source code. If you have a DEC-C compiler then you will be able to
> support yourself if need be.
> 
> Secondly, during the install (you are given the choice of "just linking"
> or "compile then link") you will be prompted for five OpenSSL options
> depending upon what you've already got installed on your system. For
> example WASD can link against its own SSL library,

Based on OpenSL 1.1.1 and last release/update was 15-Mar-2019.
There is also a OpenSSL 1.0.2r on the WASD page...

> or HP-SSL1 (OpenSSL 1.0 and higher)

Seems to be HPE SSL1 1.0-2G based on OpenSSL 1.0.2g (?).

> or HP-SSL (OpenSSL 0.9 and lower) although this last
> step is disabled by default when HP-SSL1 is present. How cool is that!
> 
> Last but not least, WASD HTTPd is the fastest web server in my shop.

Not only fast, it is rock-solid. After install and config (apart from later
configs for new function) it just starts at boot and runs to shutdown.

> Although I'm running WASD on an old rx2600 (8 CPUs, 16 GB of RAM), it is
> faster than CSWS-2.2-1 on my rx2800-i2 (8 CPUs, 64 GB of RAM) as well as
> Apache 2.4 under CentOS-7 on my DL385p-gen8 (24 CPUs, 132 GB of RAM).
> 
> Now I haven't (yet) done full-load testing of WASD, but it appears get
> its speed from doing a lot of caching to avoid disk i/o -AND- does not
> be using the pre-fork model seen in CSWS on OpenVMS-8.4 or Apache 2.4 on
> CentOS-7
> 
> Comment: I've done at least a half-dozen installs of CentOS which
> included Apache by default. I do not recall ever being asked to choose
> between pre-fork or something else. And yet, all the Apache self-help
> sites tell you not to use pre-fork. Go figure!
> 
> Neil Rieck Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 
> http://neilrieck.net/docs/openvms_notes_wasd.html
> 