Re: (FWD) Results of stress testing the current version of the Onion Router

[Bruce Montrose <montrose@itd.nrl.navy.mil>]

Check out hps.pdf and fps.pdf reports at
http://freehaven.net/~montrose/

I think these custom reports are much more telling than the
previous canned ones.

At 10:59 AM 9/5/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:57:24AM
> -0400, Bruce Montrose wrote:
> > That fixed the problem Roger. Performance under stress is still
> pretty bad, 
> > but at least it doesn't crash now when I beat it up :)
>
> Good to hear. :) Ok..it looks like we're getting around 3 
> successful
> transactions a second, when it's under really heavy load, based on
> those graphs?
>
> Can you play around with it and see if you can find the highest
> steady
> load that it can handle? What other questions can you answer, and
> what
> other questions do we want to ask?
>
> The limitation we're seeing is (I think) how quickly the first 
> onion
> router can build an onion. We plan to switch from 3DES to AES down
> the
> road (once we get around to using the new openssl), but I don't
> think
> that will help things much.
>
> (A question for the applied crypto people here: is RSA slow 
> compared
> to other public key systems? Should we look at switching? What
> horrible
> side effects will there be?)
>
> --Roger