[CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

Mon Aug 30 23:56:31 UTC 2010
Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com>

On 08/30/2010 03:20 AM, J.Witvliet at mindef.nl wrote:
> Bottleneck was (in my case) the openvpn-process, that was running
> 100% on a single core, While network was not saturated.

I found the same thing on a 1Gbps network.  It's no surprise that the 
situation would be the same on a 10Gbps network.

> So for max throughput, it is probably strongswan (ipsec) or
> hw-encryption [or both]

Is strongswan threaded?  What did its throughput look like?