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Re: [tor-relays] Tor relays without AESNI



Sebastian Hahn:
> Hi,
> 
> > On 16 Sep 2015, at 05:22, nobody <tsiolkovsky1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am looking at renting a dedicated server on a unmetered 100 Mbit/s
> > connection, but the CPU is a Intel G850, which is old (Q2 2011) and does
> > not have AES-NI. Will this CPU be too slow to make use of the bandwidth?
> 
> I'm currently running pushing between 14 and 25MB/s each direction on
> a machine that doesn't have aesni using two separate Tor processes. Each
> uses one core up to a maximum of around 80%.
> 
> CPU is Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad  CPU   Q8200  @ 2.33GHz.

If this is 14-25 Megabytes/sec per core (and corresponding tor process),
then this is also consistent with what I remember.

Without AES-NI: ~100Mbit per core. With AES-NI: over 300Mbit per core.




-- 
Mike Perry

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