pjcampbell_7243
Feb 07, 2011Cirrus
Offload a specific outbound ssl request?
Hi all
We have an issue where when our code goes out to check a 3rd party vendor for product inventory via HTTPS directly from the Java/apache webserver, the load spikes.
We could have 100 users hitting the DB on a single web server, no problem. As soon as we have X (a VERY small number) users simultaneously checking 3rd party inventory, the server load spikes.
The problem seems to be linear, that the load gets higher and machine gets slower as the number goes up until it is too slow to accept a new connection and we get timeouts.
I cannot say for sure that this is an SSL issue but I wanted to try to have the programmers change their request to plaintext.
Could I setup a local VIP on the BIGIP with the pool member being the 3rd parties IP and use server SSL to connect?
I believe I have tried to use non-local IPs as pool members before and it does not seem to work (maybe strictly a configuration issue on our end). Is there any reason why and any other suggestions?