On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Arjan <n6bc23cpc...@list.nospam.xutrox.com> wrote: > ... > My upload speed is much too slow to run into this problem, but could the > compression be (partially) disabled for middle nodes? I'm assuming that > the data they are relaying has already been compressed + encrypted, so > it wouldn't compress much anyway.
it would be interesting to see how roles (middle, exit, directory cache) affect the crypto overhead. i suspect you're right, that a middle only would opt toward the traffic it is most effective at (lots of AES, fewer pubkey ops, fewer compressed payloads). i have no if this would make a significant impact, or get you past other CPU limits for network saturation. would be a fun experiment for someone with the bandwidth/lab setting and some C7 cores... :) best regards,
