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Date:      Wed, 17 Apr 2019 17:37:15 +0200
From:      Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: openvpn and system overhead
Message-ID:  <8648d069-2172-2c09-8e59-d66a8265a120@quip.cz>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1904171707030.87502@puchar.net>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1904171707030.87502@puchar.net>

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Wojciech Puchar wrote on 2019/04/17 17:08:
> i'm running openvpn server on Xeon E5 2620 server.
> 
> when receiving 100Mbit/s traffic over VPN it uses 20% of single core.
> At least 75% of it is system time.
> 
> Seems like 500Mbit/s is a max for a single openvpn process.
> 
> can anything be done about that to improve performance?

You can play with ciphers, AES-NI etc.
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Gigabit_Networks_Linux

Miroslav Lachman




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