Celejar: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:33:28 +0100 > Jochen Schulz <m...@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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