[Tor-BSD] OpenBSD performance improvements

[George Rosamond]

Tim Wilson-Brown - teor:
> 
>> On 27 Nov 2015, at 14:11, Michael McConville <mmcco at mykolab.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Anecdotal, but I should mention that my exit node's throughput has 
>> increased massively after updating to OpenBSD 5.8. Probably 300+%. 
>> Updating to tor 0.2.7.5 seemed to help a little too.
> 
> There were some significant crypto performance improvements in
> 0.2.7.5, but I'm not sure how they affect overall throughput.
> 
>> 
>> My Ethernet driver is em(4). This is the one running on a 100 Mbps
>> link with a budget, low-power Atom board, so it's usually CPU- or 
>> cache-bound.

I was under the impression this:

LIB_DEPENDS=    devel/libevent2

...matters was going to have a significant impact.

I'll try the update myself and let the list know.

Interested to see the impact on TB also.

g