[CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

Boris Epstein borepstein at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 19:57:40 UTC 2010


On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:56 AM, drew einhorn <drew.einhorn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like you need boxes with more cpu.
>
> What's the output when you type:  cat /proc/cpuinfo
> into a shell prompt?
>
> What kind of traffic goes over the link?
>
> Lots of low bandwidth connections?
> A few high bandwidth connections?
> Lots of high bandwidth connections?
> Some combination of the above?
>
> Just testing a bunch of boxes with a variety of specs may give you
> a better answer the pondering the mysteries of the specifications.
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Thanks. I actually hoped that other people may have already performed
the necessary testing - and that, based on the responses to my email,
seems to some extent to have been the case. Here's /proc/cpuinfo on
the OpenVPN server:

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[bepstein at dellnikon ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 8
model name	: Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping	: 10
cpu MHz		: 996.841
cache size	: 256 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 2
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 mmx fxsr sse up
bogomips	: 1993.68

[bepstein at dellnikon ~]$

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Boris.



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