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body { font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 12pt; }</style></head><body><div>Hello thanks for the comments, I might do that, remove the limits, because it's self limiting by the 1 Gbps network port, so it can't use more than that anyway.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm using an Opnsense routing platform, and I've had more than 4,000 simultaneous connections just running torrents, lol.</div><div><br /></div><div>Igor, it doesn't appear to be a CPU bottleneck: <a href="https://puu.sh/DA4GR/2ef1b58e2e.png" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://puu.sh/DA4GR/2ef1b58e2e.png</a></div><div>Am I able to run another tor instance just on different ports on the same IP?</div><div><br /></div><div>According to file descriptor limit I shouldn't be hitting a socket/file descriptor limit either.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://puu.sh/DA4Sh/6e27417c74.png">https://puu.sh/DA4Sh/6e27417c74.png</a></div><div><br /></div><div>I tried to run chutney tests to see what hardware supports but haven't quite figured out what the command line I should be using is.</div><div><br /></div><div>Any help with that would be appreciated.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks,</div><div id="signature_old"><div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><span id="3377410eba0948d5a580008778038703">
<div>Matt Westfall</div>
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<div>From: "teor" <<a href="mailto:teor@riseup.net">teor@riseup.net</a>></div>
<div>To: <a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a></div>
<div>Sent: 5/30/2019 7:05:20 PM</div>
<div>Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Relay Consensus Low</div><div><br /></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">On 25 May 2019, at 01:13, Matt Westfall <<a href="mailto:mwestfall@ecansol.com">mwestfall@ecansol.com</a>> wrote:<br /><br /></div><blockquote type="cite" class="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>My tor node: <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/B1B10104EB72A1FBBF6687B05F1915D87D00DBDE" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/B1B10104EB72A1FBBF6687B05F1915D87D00DBDE</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Doesn't ever go up above 8800 or so.</div><div><br /></div><div>One thing I notice in Nyx is that my connections never go above about 2000 in and out connections.</div></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">That's unusual, because there are about 7,000 relays in the network.</div><div dir="ltr">How many simultaneous connections does your router support?</div><div dir="ltr">(Lots of them claim to support unlimited connections, but only support</div><div dir="ltr">a few hundred or a few thousand.)</div><br /><blockquote type="cite" class="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>I have advertised bandwidth of just shy of a gigabit in my config. I understand now that the "advertised bandwidth" is calculated based on observed traffic through the node, which while more reliable and avoids abuse, seems to be counter productive to a degree.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ultimately what do I need to do to get more traffic through my node? Cause I have a 2Gbps fiber sitting here basically doing nothing so I was giving 1Gbps to tor :)</div><div></div></div></blockquote><br /></div><div dir="ltr">You could remove all the bandwidth limits, and put them back in when tor is using</div><div dir="ltr">more than you want it to. (Tor tries to keep some extra bandwidth to deal with</div><div dir="ltr">traffic spikes, so a 1 Gbps limit will get you around 300 kbps sustained traffic.)</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Here's a more detailed explanation, and some other things to try:</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/MyRelayIsSlow">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/MyRelayIsSlow</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">T</div></blockquote></div>
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