[tor-relays] Why can't I see more traffic? (is my banana too weak?)

[Aeris]

> Could it be that it is due to the quite slow hardware, even though I know
> that it is able to push more traffic?

Yep, surely.

You currently push 3Mbps of traffic, which is correct for this kind of hardware.
All "cheap" hardware (raspi, banana, olimex, pine…) suffer of the fact they 
don’t have crypto hardware acceleration and do software encryption. And so is 
very slow (10-100× factor) even compared to low end amd64 CPU with AES-NI 
extension.

Generally speaking, the bottleneck of a Tor relay is CPU, not bandwidth.
Even high end Intel CPU is not able to deliver more than 300Mbps (one core of 
2Ghz Xeon is ~ 100Mbits, standard CPU is ~ 300Mbps, best known Tor relay 
currently handle 500Mbps).

<3,
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