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Chapter 8. Online Certificate Status Manager: Verifying Certificate Status
Figure 8.3. OCSP Summary
The signing time is the amount of processing time spent signing responses. The processing time is the
time spent verifying the status of the certificate. The total time is the sum of the signing and processing
times.
The time per response metrics (signing time and total time) and responses per second metric show
the performance of the OCSP responder. Very high response times, lasting several seconds, could
indicate that traffic is heavy for the Online Certificate Status Manager or that the configuration of the
subsystem or its host server is suboptimal.
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