One thing you could try doing if you feel up to it is to build Tailscale from source code. Often when built for your specific machine, performance improves.
Comment on Tailscale with zero clients connected takes 7% of CPU time: is this normal?
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 1 year agoThat’s weird. I closed the docker on that specific machine (ryzen 5), copied the docker-compose directory (=same config) on an i5-6500T and now it’s using just 0.1% of CPU time
housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 1 year ago
Greg@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Isn’t CPU % is per thread?
redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 1 year ago
I just checked my AMD box and tailscale there can consume ~15% of cpu time when the tunnel is under active use. When it’s not used it’s ~1.5%. But it’s a low power old AMD cpu though (AMD G-T56N), so I’m not use if it compares to Ryzen 5. On my intel machine, it’s ~5% when under active use, and idle at ~0.5%.