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<p>More is better. Here my values at home:<br>
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<p>Intel N3050 4x 1.6 GHz in an internal firewall with external Tor
application. Internet connection download 50 MBit/s, Upload 10
MBit/s.<br>
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<p>Internal LAN performance: 90 MBit/s</p>
<p>My own downloads are near 50 MBit/s (less time, most time
20...30MBit/s);</p>
<p>Uploads near 8 MBit/s in peaks; Never theoretical limit reached.<br>
</p>
<p>My personal usage drives the internet line to full power, but Tor
as my MIDDLE RELAY doesn't use the full internet line power. It is
dependend from the cabability of the guard/exit partners. Cpu load
is less then 20%. The traffic is symmetrical IN/OUT.<br>
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<p>My other external middel nodes doesn't use the full internet line
power too. The cpu load is less then 10%. The hardware ist a
single VPS cpu 3GHz with 512 GB RAM. This was the minimum of
provider offer.</p>
<p>Take a look on<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/node49">https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/node49</a></p>
<p>node49 is my home middle node. node49a/b are external VPS with
100MBit connections. The usage is about 5-10 MBit/s. Cpu load
about 10% in peak.</p>
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<p>Olaf<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20.03.2017 22:03, Farid Joubbi
wrote:<br>
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<p>I have tried a Banana Pi Pro 1,2 GHz Allwinner A20 -> 10
Mbit/s max (debian)<br>
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<p>Beaglebone Black 1 GHz AM335x -> 12 Mbit/s max (debian)<br>
</p>
<p>Intel NUC5CPYH Celeron N3050 1,6 GHz to 2,16 burst -> 5
Mbit/s max (OpenBSD)</p>
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<p>So I need something quite a bit more than I have already tried
;-)</p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [tor-relays] What kind of hardware do I
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<div>Even a 1,8 ghz Atom can max out a 100mbit line … you don't
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I have only found others asking the same question as
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This one got closed before a good answer:</div>
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I am prepared to pay a pile of cash for a computer
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I have a 100 Mbit/s symmetric connection.</div>
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What should I buy?</div>
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I don't want to buy something that has a too slow
CPU that is not able to push enough traffic, but I
also don't want to overkill and get a huge
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How much CPU does your relay have/use?</div>
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px;
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px">I'm running my Guard / Relay
on a VPS with only one core and 512MB RAM. Its
also hosting a blog, my own mailserver and is
member of
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px">I haven't encountered any
problems so far. It's also connected via
100MBit/sec</div>
<div class="" style="margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px">You can see the stats here: <a
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experimented a bit in the last weeks with being
a bridge, but I now I'm back as a Relay...
therefore the performance charts are not as high
as they have been at the end of last year.</div>
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px;
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px;
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powered middle relays for a few years.</div>
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small upgrade.</div>
<div class="" style="margin-top:0px;
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computer hardware for a long time.</div>
<div class="" style="margin-top:0px;
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most power efficient CPU/motherboard that can
saturate 100 Mbit/s as a Tor relay?</div>
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