<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 05:12, coderman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:coderman@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">coderman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><div>On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Martin Fick <<a href="mailto:mogulguy@yahoo.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">mogulguy@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ...<br></div></div><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><div>> Both of your preferred solutions will have much<br>> higher performance overheads than any container<br>> like solution (OpenVz, Vserver, lxc...).<br>
<br></div>concurrent number of open sockets. ip stack tuning parameters. other<br>technical constraints that make networking on these "light overhead"<br>container systems unworkable. the very design trade offs they make to<br>
support larger numbers of contains per host directly reduce the<br>networking performance and capacity of any singular container/vm.<br><br>you must have at least X resources to participate in the Tor network<br>as a router. these crippled systems don't cut it.<br>
<br><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>In the past I have run a tor relay that was pushing about 60Mb/sec 24x7. It was running in an OpenVZ container and it had no problems. It was running in a container on my own dedicated server and not a VPS from a hosting company.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In summary if I may clarify for anyone finding this thread by a search -</div><div>OpenVZ, and I guess other container technologies, will run tor relays just fine BUT restrictions placed on the VPS by a hosting company may cause problems.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Zagbot.</div><div><br></div></span>