[8] code review request for 7165807: Non optimized initialization of NSS crypto library leads to scalability issues

[Vincent Ryan]

The issue relates to the size and the locking mechanism applied to NSS session pools, by default.
This leads to poor performance when server-type workloads are applied.

Unfortunately I don't have any performance numbers to share.

On 14 Jun 2013, at 19:13, Matthew Hall wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 06:38:16PM +0100, Vincent Ryan wrote:
>> NSS may be initialized to favour performance or to favour memory footprint. 
>> This fix introduces a new configuration flag to allow Java applications to 
>> choose. By default, NSS will be initialized for performance.
> 
> The original Sun bug just says, "Non optimized initialization of NSS crypto 
> library leads to scalability issues".
> 
> But it doesn't say what the scalability issues were, and how bad they were, 
> and how well it ran without and with the fix. I'm just curious about the 
> specifics.
> 
> Matthew.