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Re: [tor-relays] Hardware specs for Tor Relay
On March 26, 2015 8:59:45 PM yl <tor@xxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Hello,
I clicked myself a cheap vserver 20 days ago and it runs Tor since then.
I mainly did this to play a bit with the relay, try around and so. I
took over another relay a while ago, an exit, I don't want to try around
on that.
It runs well, I got about 4,4 TB data up AND down since then, I have it
running with 20-40Mb/s on a 100Mb/s connection (according to the hoster
100Mb/s), it runs as a non exit. CPU load it pretty high all the time
according to arm it's about 80-100%, but with htop I can see that only
one core of the CPU is busy, the others are not.
I figured that the CPU is so busy because the vserver doesn't have
AES-NI, which I confirmed by some command I run (forgot the command).
Did you ask them if you can get it ? I had a VPS a while ago and they said
"we disabled that for compatibility reasons" but if you want it we will
turn it on. And they did it for free :-)
So I thought I might wanna move that relay to another server, maybe at
the same hoster to get higher data transfer.
What hardware specs do you have and is my assumption correct with the
AES-NI being one part of the bottleneck?
It is the no. 1 bottleneck from my experience. I still hope that we are
going to see the crypto-multithreading feature at some point in the future.
--
Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations / M.f.G.
Sebastian Urbach
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everything I hold in veneration - courage,
clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and,
above all, love of the truth.
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American journalist, essayist, magazine
editor, satirist and critic.
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