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

[Farid Joubbi]

I have tried a Banana Pi Pro 1,2 GHz Allwinner A20 -> 10 Mbit/s max (debian)

Beaglebone Black 1 GHz AM335x -> 12 Mbit/s max (debian)

Intel NUC5CPYH Celeron N3050 1,6 GHz to 2,16 burst -> 5 Mbit/s max (OpenBSD)


So I need something quite a bit more than I have already tried ;-)



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

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


niftybunny
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On 20 Mar 2017, at 21:45, Farid Joubbi <joubbi at kth.se<mailto: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

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

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?


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Sent: 17 March 2017 12:39
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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<http://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 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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