Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-15 Thread Elias via tor-relays
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >Since this is virtualization, make sure that features such as AES >acceleration are active. Yes, I have tested that. Is active. >The number of cores is not really relevant since Tor is not >multi-threaded. The EPYC 7702 can boost up to 3.35

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-12 Thread tor-operator--- via tor-relays
Elias via tor-relays wrote: > This is actually not a "real" root server, it's a KVM server (of > course). The CPU is an AMD EPYC 7702 with 2 dedicated cores per > server@3,35GHz. Since this is virtualization, make sure that features such as AES acceleration are active. The number of cores is

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-11 Thread Elias via tor-relays
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thank you for your suggestions, Gary. This is actually not a "real" root server, it's a KVM server (of course). The CPU is an AMD EPYC 7702 with 2 dedicated cores per server@3,35GHz. I chose this server because the bandwith is unmetered and it's

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-10 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
The following are some of the more important config options that I use for such a small middle relay: # Tor: A non-exit relay should be able to handle 7000 concurrent connections                                                                   ulimit -n 65535 DirCache 0              

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-10 Thread Elias via tor-relays
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'm sorry that I now spam the mailing list, but I made a mistake. I'm of course NOT logging at debug level, it's just one logfile (notices.log). I logged debug when I was running the relay on the VPS because I wanted to know why it crashed all the

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-10 Thread failing.flyaway443--- via tor-relays
I just read this research paper, maybe it's worth thinking about some kind of implementation of this approach some time in the future. It's an interesting read anyway. uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/16108/Engler_Steven.pdf Regards ___

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-10 Thread failing.flyaway443--- via tor-relays
Hi Gary, thank you for your response. I think I just worry too much. I watched my relay all the time today, I had bandwidth usage of 30MB/s at times and HTOP showed me a Load average of 0.29/0.29/0.30. I know that this is totally fine for a dual core. The relay is up and running for 3 days and 8

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-09 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
It's surprising that you're running into CPU issues. It's typically RAM that is exhausted first. I have 5 x Dual Core 256MB Tor Relay Nodes loadbalanced as a Single Middle Relay that never have CPU issues. It's always a matter of running out of RAM for me. The loadbalanced Tor Relay

[tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-09 Thread failing.flyaway443--- via tor-relays
Hi everyone, about two weeks ago, I signed up for a VPS with a cloud provider and set up a Tor relay. I installed Debian 11 Bullseye, secured it, and then set up Tor 0.4.6.8 and started the relay. The VPS had the following specs: 1vCore, 2GB RAM, 40TB traffic per month on a 1Gbit/s link. I

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware specs for a high-bandwidth Tor exit?

2019-11-06 Thread ylms
Hello Christian, please also report back with the information you found out. I am also pretty interested, running Tor Exits for various German NGOs this really is a topic I am interested in. Currently the fastests Exit I operate in Germany is "only" doing a little more than 30MiB/s I think. But

[tor-relays] Hardware specs for a high-bandwidth Tor exit?

2019-11-06 Thread Christian Pietsch
Dear Tor friends, the NGO I am volunteering for (Digitalcourage e.V.) has been running modest Tor exits for many years. Now we finally have the opportunity to run a high-bandwidth exit relay because we found a data center with a nice internet connection (20 Gbit/s) we may use. My question is:

[tor-relays] Hardware specs for Tor Relay

2015-03-26 Thread yl
Hello, I clicked myself a cheap vserver 20 days ago and it runs Tor since then. I mainly did this to play a bit with the relay, try around and so. I took over another relay a while ago, an exit, I don't want to try around on that. It runs well, I got about 4,4 TB data up AND down since then, I

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware specs for Tor Relay

2015-03-26 Thread Sebastian Urbach
On March 26, 2015 8:59:45 PM yl t...@yl.ms wrote: Hi, Hello, I clicked myself a cheap vserver 20 days ago and it runs Tor since then. I mainly did this to play a bit with the relay, try around and so. I took over another relay a while ago, an exit, I don't want to try around on that. It runs

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware specs for Tor Relay

2015-03-26 Thread Nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I figured that the CPU is so busy because the vserver doesn't have AES-NI, which I confirmed by some command I run (forgot the command). So I thought I might wanna move that relay to another server, maybe at the same hoster to get higher

Re: [tor-relays] hardware accelerated crypto

2013-10-02 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/01/2013 10:02 PM, Gordon Morehouse wrote: I'm interested if there are any hardware accelerators in either the Raspberry Pi (which needs all the help it can get) or the Cubieboard 2 (A20-based). To the best of my knowledge, no.

Re: [tor-relays] hardware accelerated crypto

2013-10-02 Thread Lukas Erlacher
The RasPi is nice but it's also not terribly powerful. It definitely has its limits. For example, I found out the hard way last weekend that trying to run an Etherpad-Lite on a RasPi is a great way to run one into the ground... I have a RasPi Model B Rev 2 running etherpad-lite and a

Re: [tor-relays] hardware accelerated crypto

2013-10-02 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Happily, it DOES appear that there may be some hope for the Allwinner A20 based Cubieboard 2 (I haven't checked for the original Cubieboard yet): The Security System (SS) is one encrypt/ decrypt function accelerator that is suitable for a variety of applications. It supports both encryption and

Re: [tor-relays] hardware accelerated crypto

2013-10-01 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:25:47AM +0200, Sarah Vigote wrote: I would like to run a 100Mb/s tor exit node, but I have issues wrt power consumption. reading http://ortizaudio.blogspot.fr/2011/10/using-dreamplugs-crypto-chip.html it seems dreamplugs has *fast* aes-128-ecb. Does anyone have

Re: [tor-relays] hardware accelerated crypto

2013-10-01 Thread jason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not sure why I missed this first post but I'm very interested in working on this project with whomever is interested. I bought a pogoplug v2 specifically to test it's usefulness as a tor exit or relay. - -Jason On 10/01/2013 06:39 PM, Andy

Re: [tor-relays] hardware accelerated crypto

2013-10-01 Thread jason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would love to do all this actually but I never managed to get the hw accelerated crypto (ssl/tls) bits working to experiment with. I'd be up for restarting this if I knew I could consult with one or two others who had a genuine interest in this. -

Re: [tor-relays] hardware accelerated crypto

2013-10-01 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2013-10-01 21:20, Andy Isaacson wrote: On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 06:45:52PM +, jason wrote: I'm not sure why I missed this first post but I'm very interested in working on this project with whomever is interested. I bought a pogoplug v2 specifically to test it's usefulness as a tor exit

Re: [tor-relays] hardware accelerated crypto

2013-09-13 Thread blob
Am Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:25:47 +0200 schrieb Sarah Vigote pixe...@riseup.net: I once meassured the performance of the padlock crypto chip on a VIA Esther C7 1500 MHz processor. Result: AES-128 cbc with padlock is about 14 times faster compared to the C7 with padlock disabled. regards, Fabian hi,

[tor-relays] hardware accelerated crypto

2013-09-12 Thread Sarah Vigote
hi, I would like to run a 100Mb/s tor exit node, but I have issues wrt power consumption. reading http://ortizaudio.blogspot.fr/2011/10/using-dreamplugs-crypto-chip.html it seems dreamplugs has *fast* aes-128-ecb. Does anyone have any experience running a node based on cheap crypto chip

Re: [tor-relays] hardware

2013-07-15 Thread grarpamp
A10-6800K (4 x 4.1GHz) would be decent. It doesn't seem to support ECC It doesn't. And for those that recognize its importance, that's been an kind of weakness of AMD for some time. Actually for both AMD and Intel, it's treated as a price premium instead of just 8+n extra gates and logic.

Re: [tor-relays] hardware

2013-07-12 Thread Mike Perry
Andy Isaacson: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:46:20PM +0200, Andreas Fink wrote: can someone give me hints on what hardware would be best suited to run big fat tor exit nodes connected with multiple 1gbps or 10gps links? We are considering putting some fat boxes near major internet exchanges

[tor-relays] hardware

2013-07-11 Thread Andreas Fink
can someone give me hints on what hardware would be best suited to run big fat tor exit nodes connected with multiple 1gbps or 10gps links? We are considering putting some fat boxes near major internet exchanges of the world. sent from iPhone ___

Re: [tor-relays] hardware

2013-07-11 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:46:20PM +0200, Andreas Fink wrote: can someone give me hints on what hardware would be best suited to run big fat tor exit nodes connected with multiple 1gbps or 10gps links? We are considering putting some fat boxes near major internet exchanges of the world.

Re: [tor-relays] hardware accel option in tor alpha

2012-04-01 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Apr 1, 2012, at 2:22 PM, Sebastian Urbach wrote: Hi Sebastian, oh hai. Do you know if this applies to the released 0.3.13-alpha version from the 26th of March ? It does not, that's why I said it isn't in any released version of tor. The next one should contain it, until then you're