I am running a tor exit node and have been doing some testing on bandwidth consumption. The tor server is running linux and is also used for TorrentFlux - a web based torrent management application. <br><br>The issue I'm noticing is while I'm downloading a torrent that is coming in at about 1mb/s and I stop the tor service, the torrent downloads at 4mb/s. The tor service is correctly using 40kbps of my bandwidth but it seems to be limiting the bandwidth of other services. Is this possible?<br>
<br>A few other environment factors:<br> - my firwall is a pretty old machine with a very slow NIC<br> - my tor server NIC is very cheap [<$10]<br><br>Could anyone give me some insight about what they think might be going on?<br>
<br>Thanks in advance...<br><br>Rochester TOR Admin<br>running server torroc01<br>