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.
Modern Xeon, AES-NI is helpful, HT is not very helpful (but not hurtful either), higher clock rate is more helpful than more cores. 4GB of RAM per core, you can probably get away with 2GB/core but why skimp. Noisetor uses most of a 4-core X3350 2.6 GHz to push ~500 Mbps symmetric. That's without AES-NI, so I'd expect a quadcore 2.5 GHz AES-NI to be able to fill a 1Gbps pipe. AMD doesn't seem to make any server CPUs that are useful for this application, unfortunately. -andy _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays