I think a more accurate title would be "How to reduce memory usage 10x in almost anything that uses OpenSSL." Bottom line: All those bookkeeping data structures

I think a more accurate title would be "How to reduce memory usage 10x in almost anything that uses OpenSSL." Bottom line: All those bookkeeping data structures for compression take up a lot of space. Disable SSL compression and you can go from 1MB per connection down to 100kB.