[tor-relays] High speed Tor relay advice

[grarpamp]

On 8/14/16, i3 <i3jm2y7yftyix4kobdra at posteo.ee> wrote:
> My new server has 10Gb/s connection (I've observed it at 900MB/s to the drives

Depending on whether you meant MiB/s or MB/s,
you may find your network calculations off by 350Mbps,
which is a sizable tor relay's worth itself.
Standard use is decimal and bits for network "Mbps",
and binary and bytes for disk "MiB". "MB/s" is neither.

Your drives quote yields 7.2Gbps minimum.

> CPU: 6x Xeon E5-2620v3 vCores

Being subject to vps provider, and depending on
how the cpu's and clocks are parceled out, core
count can help there. This cpu is 2.4GHz.
"5 other people" sounds like you may have a whole core.

Anyway, you'll enjoy taking it for spin :)


For those doing dedi or colo, clock speed and cpu
generation per price can be large factor, fastest is 4.0GHz,
lots of 4x cores near there.

Some synthetic comparison charts...
http://cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
http://cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
VPS might have some careful reason to even look at...
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/multi_cpu.html

Intel released some skylake v5 etc since last I looked...
http://ark.intel.com/Search/Advanced?s=t&RetailSkuAvailable=true&FilterCurrentProducts=true&CoreCountMin=4&AESTech=true