Re: [tor-relays] Tor relays without AESNI

Sebastian Hahn:

Hi,

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On 16 Sep 2015, at 05:22, nobody tsiolkovsky1@riseup.net 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.