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<div>Hi Tim,</div><div>TNX for your fast response. That was more or less what I thought already. </div><div>Mike</div><br><br>-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------<br>Von: teor <teor2345@gmail.com> <br>Datum: 12.12.16 07:28 (GMT+01:00) <br>An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org <br>Betreff: Re: [tor-relays] Second relay on same ESX <br><br><br>> On 12 Dec. 2016, at 17:08, balbea16 <balbea16@gmx.de> wrote:<br>> <br>> Hi <br>> Are you actually talking about identical relays, i.e. with the same fingerprint? That would be interessting for me, as I'd like to run a second Rasp Pi in parallel for redundency reasons.<br>> Mike<br><br>Please don't run a second relay on the same fingerprint.<br>Your relay won't get much traffic, because it will look like<br>its address and ports are changing all the time.<br><br>Instead, run two relays with different keys, and let the<br>network load-balance between them.<br><br>Tim<br><br>> -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------<br>> Von: Patrick DERWAEL <patrick@derwael.be> <br>> Datum: 12.12.16 06:41 (GMT+01:00) <br>> An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org <br>> Betreff: Re: [tor-relays] Second relay on same ESX <br>> <br>> John,<br>> The host has 32GB RAM& 4 CPUs<br>> I have allocated 2GB & 2CPUs to my VM<br>> As the VM CPU usage is +/-40%, I'm not sure if I should reduce to 1CPU (would it then be used at 80% average?)<br>> <br>> P.<br>> <br>> 2016-12-11 18:22 GMT+01:00 John Ricketts <john@quintex.com>:<br>> Patrick,<br>> <br>> I run all of my relays under VMware and I don't have any issues at all.<br>> <br>> How many CPUs do you have in the physical server and how many virtual CPUs do you have assigned to the VM?<br>> <br>> John<br>> <br>> On Dec 11, 2016, at 11:19, Patrick DERWAEL <patrick@derwael.be> wrote:<br>> <br>>> Hi guys,<br>>> <br>>> I'm running a relay in a VM on a physical server which is largely under used<br>>> Current advertised bandwidth 26MB, consensus 76500<br>>> I'm considering running a second relay (2nd VM) on the very same hardware, but this brings a few questions:<br>>> <br>>> - is there any issue running it at the same geographical place?<br>>> - would the current total BW effectively consumed (26MB) be divided in 2 (i.e. no added value in BW)?<br>>> - basically, would it have any significant added value to the network?<br>>> <br>>> Thanks<br>>> <br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> tor-relays mailing list<br>>> tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br>>> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> tor-relays mailing list<br>> tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br>> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Patrick Derwael<br>> Rue de la fontaine, 3<br>> 4210 Burdinne<br>> G:0479.80.50.79<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> tor-relays mailing list<br>> tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br>> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays<br><br>T<br><br>-- <br>Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)<br><br>teor2345 at gmail dot com<br>PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B<br>ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n<br>xmpp: teor at torproject dot org<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>tor-relays mailing list<br>tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br>https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays<br></body></html>