[tor-relays] Smallest, cheapest, lightest computer for tor relay

[teor]

> On 18 Oct 2016, at 00:49, Tristan <supersluether at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "Windows" and "Tor relay" don't really go together.

The Windows bufferevents code rotted due to lack of testing, so it's hard to
run a performant Tor relay on Windows.

But we'd welcome patches to get Tor working better on Windows. After all, a
large number of Tor clients, and some hidden services, are on Windows.

Tim

> On Oct 17, 2016 8:47 AM, "Petrusko" <petrusko at riseup.net> wrote:
> RPi 2/3 if I'm not wrong are around 3 Watts (fanless)
> An old P4... For sure it's not lower than 60 Watts power consumption
> 
> And if he wants to run only a Tor relay, advantage to have Windows OS is
> relative ;)
> Not really agree...
> 
> But agree about cpu speed ;)
> I don't remember, RPi v3 has the famous AES-NI that make everything
> faster for Tor ? :s
> 
> 
> 17/10/2016 14:18, Neel Chauhan :
> > The disadvantage of the PC approach is space and higher power
> > consumption, but the advantage is that you can use *BSD and Windows,
> > and can possibly take advantage of faster speeds.
> 
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