![]() I tried switching to AES-256 in settings, but if anything this just made downloads slower. That smelled like single-threaded processing to me for one, and also it kinda suggested that it wasn't accelerating its encryption using the CPU's AES-NI extensions. Looking at Activity Monitor, I could see the PIA OpenVPN process eating around 100% CPU, which means saturing one logical core on this 4C/8T CPU. The fans were also kicking in, and I could see Macs Fan Control reporting >90C CPU temperatures in its icon in the menu bar. ![]() ![]() I noticed quickly that not only were torrents downloading significantly slower on this setup, even though the aforementioned Linux box was a fanless mini-PC with a J4125 CPU in it. On this machine, I have qBittorrent installed, and I'm using the official native macOS PIA VPN app, whereas before I had qbittorrent-nox on a Linux server using the unencrypted SOCKS5 proxy. I've been reinstalling an old Mac mini Server from 2011 with an i7 Sandy Bridge I7-2635QM processor. ![]()
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