[tor-relays] What kind of hardware do I need for my relay

[niftybunny]

Even a 1,8 ghz Atom can max out a 100mbit line … you don't need much …


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> On 20 Mar 2017, at 21:45, Farid Joubbi <joubbi at kth.se> wrote:
> 
> I'm a little surprised that this kind of question is not documented anywhere, or at least I have not been able to find it.
> I have only found others asking the same question as me without getting a good answer.
> There was a quite exhaustive discussion seven years ago:
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2010-August/000164.html <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2010-August/000164.html>
> 
> This one got closed before a good answer:
> https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/9966/system-requirements-of-tor-relay-how-powerful-a-cpu-and-ram-should-i-use <https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/9966/system-requirements-of-tor-relay-how-powerful-a-cpu-and-ram-should-i-use>
> 
> I am prepared to pay a pile of cash for a computer that I will dedicate to run a relay.
> I have a 100 Mbit/s symmetric connection.
> What should I buy?
> 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 electricity bill.
> 
> Sebastian,
> How much CPU does your relay have/use?
> 
> 
> From: tor-relays <tor-relays-bounces at lists.torproject.org> on behalf of Sebastian Hoffmann <sebastian at machinewithoutbrain.de>
> Sent: 17 March 2017 12:39
> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] What kind of hardware do I need for my relay
>  
> Hi Farid,
> 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 pool.ntp.org
> I haven't encountered any problems so far. It's also connected via 100MBit/sec
> You can see the stats here: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/F381D6294A93A0078B76D0DCA332133CF5C8F687 <https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/F381D6294A93A0078B76D0DCA332133CF5C8F687> I 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.
>  
> 
> Am 2017-03-17 10:54, schrieb Farid Joubbi:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have been running low powered middle relays for a few years.
>> Now I think it's time for a small upgrade.
>> I haven't looked at computer hardware for a long time.
>> What is the cheapest and most power efficient CPU/motherboard that can saturate 100 Mbit/s as a Tor relay?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 
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