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"ab" (Apache Benchmark) for a long time does not work on RHEL6 in case of https-sites, since it's no problem to connect to this servers from any client and "ab" from Fedora systems also works wheter ECDHE or not there must be something wrong in the RHEL package [root@openvas:~]$ ab -c 5 -n 100 https://secure.thelounge.net/ This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $> Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/ Benchmarking secure.thelounge.net (be patient)...SSL read failed - closing connection SSL read failed - closing connection SSL read failed - closing connection SSL read failed - closing connection SSL read failed - closing connection SSL read failed - closing connection SSL read failed - closing connection SSL read failed - closing connection SSL read failed - closing connection SSL read failed - closing connection SSL read failed - closing connection SSL read failed - closing connection SSL read failed - 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closing connection SSL read failed - closing connection SSL read failed - closing connection SSL read failed - closing connection ..done Server Software: Server Hostname: secure.thelounge.net Server Port: 443 SSL/TLS Protocol: TLSv1/SSLv3,ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256,2048,128 Document Path: / Document Length: 0 bytes Concurrency Level: 5 Time taken for tests: 0.458 seconds Complete requests: 100 Failed requests: 100 (Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 100, Exceptions: 0) Write errors: 0 Total transferred: 135300 bytes HTML transferred: 91200 bytes Requests per second: 218.45 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 22.889 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 4.578 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 288.63 [Kbytes/sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 9 18 3.5 18 28 Processing: 2 5 4.3 3 19 Waiting: 2 4 2.9 3 18 Total: 10 22 5.5 22 41 Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 22 66% 23 75% 24 80% 25 90% 32 95% 36 98% 41 99% 41 100% 41 (longest request)
Thanks for reporting this. The ab client in httpd 2.2.x is very rough and received significant improvements in httpd 2.4. We currently have no plans to backport the 2.4.x changes. If this issue is critical or in any way time sensitive, please raise a ticket through your regular Red Hat support channels to make certain it receives the proper attention and prioritization to assure a timely resolution. For information on how to contact the Red Hat production support team, please visit: https://www.redhat.com/support/process/production/#howto
I meant to say specifically the *SSL support* in the ab client is very rough.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1249.html