Celejar:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:33:28 +0100
> Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
>
>> Celejar:
>>>
>>> I understand that you're technically adding traffic and processor
>>> overhead; the question is how much?
>>
>> My 1.66GHz atom D510 can encrypt/decrypt AES with ~20MByte/s on a single
>> core. Typically, my wifi reaches only 10% of that throughput.
>> Additionally, encryption is usually done by the network adapter in
>> hardware, as far as I know. The host CPU shouldn't be stressed by that.
>
> Thanks. What's the CPU usage like while doing AES on 20Mb?
A single core get's used 100% by the kworker thread. But actually it's
not 20MB/s, but 25MB/s while reading (decrypting) and 35MB/s while
writing (encrypting). I just tested it again.
J.
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