Thank you for the information! Now I know why. Do you happen to know if the people on the discussion you linked to came to a conclusion about why OpenBSD relays perform not as well as Linuxes? Reading the whole thread made me believe that there is probably another bottle neck there too.
________________________________________ From: tor-relays <[email protected]> on behalf of Carlin Bingham <[email protected]> Sent: 14 September 2016 12:51 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Running tor on OpenBSD with hardware acceleration On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 08:12:15AM +0000, Farid Joubbi wrote: > Hello, > > > I have a relay running on OpenBSD. > > LibreSSL that comes with OpenBSD does not have support for hardware > acceleration. > > I get this when I start tor: > > > "[notice] We were built to run on a 64-bit CPU, with OpenSSL 1.0.1 or later, > but with a version of OpenSSL that apparently lacks accelerated support for > the NIST P-224 and P-256 groups. Building openssl with such support (using > the enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128 option when configuring it) would make ECDH > much faster." > > > How do I enable support for hardware acceleration? > > My guess is that I have to compile and install OpenSSL, then compile Tor to > use the new OpenSSL. > > Does anyone here have any experience with this on OpenBSD? > > Anything that I have missed and should be aware of? > > > Thanks. > > It's disabled because various compilers produce incorrect code for it and no one knows for sure which ones are safe to use. See also: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=142014109006432&w=2 -- Carlin _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
