Not sure the image worked for everybody, attempting an inline table with same information.
# of IPv4 # of Tor Instances per IPv4 Total # of Tor Instances Speed per Tor Instance (MiB/s) Total Speed of All Tor Instances (MiB/s) Total Port Speed (Gbps) 256 8 2048 40 81920 687 256 4 1024 40 40960 344 256 2 512 40 20480 172 256 1 256 40 10240 86 256 8 2048 20 40960 344 256 4 1024 20 20480 172 256 2 512 20 10240 86 256 1 256 20 5120 43 256 8 2048 10 20480 172 256 4 1024 10 10240 86 256 2 512 10 5120 43 256 1 256 10 2560 21 256 8 2048 5 10240 86 256 4 1024 5 5120 43 256 2 512 5 2560 21 256 1 256 5 1280 11 256 8 2048 2 4096 34 256 4 1024 2 2048 17 256 2 512 2 1024 9 256 1 256 2 512 4 128 8 1024 40 40960 344 128 4 512 40 20480 172 128 2 256 40 10240 86 128 1 128 40 5120 43 128 8 1024 20 20480 172 128 4 512 20 10240 86 128 2 256 20 5120 43 128 1 128 20 2560 21 128 8 1024 10 10240 86 128 4 512 10 5120 43 128 2 256 10 2560 21 128 1 128 10 1280 11 128 8 1024 5 5120 43 128 4 512 5 2560 21 128 2 256 5 1280 11 128 1 128 5 640 5 128 8 1024 2 2048 17 128 4 512 2 1024 9 128 2 256 2 512 4 128 1 128 2 256 2
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On Tuesday, February 18th, 2025 at 8:00 AM, usetor.wtf via tor-relays tor-relays@lists.torproject.org wrote:
Another question - what's the most optimal count of Tor relays per IP when using an IPv4 /24, i.e. roughly 256 IPs? Looking for thoughts / guidance as this can quickly be a costly endeavor with slow turn around times on securing data center capacity.
Current hypothesis is around 2 Tor Instances per 256 IPs for 512 relays at 5 MiB/s each needing 21 Gbps port speed. See details below.
Option 1: Is it 8 Tor instances per IP, the current maximum? 2048 total Tor instances across 256 IPs in /24? 1/4 of the current ~8000 running relays (~8200 relays bandwidth measured today)? Seems too many. Example: At 256 IPs, 8 Tor instances per IP, average speed of 10 MiB/s per Tor relay, need roughly 172 Gbps, which is much less common, especially among volunteer Tor relays.
Option 2: Is it 1 Tor instance per IP, the minimum amount per IP? When Tor is blocked, it's done by IP, so have 8 per IP is less efficient when 256 are available to spread out the relays and minimize blockage, unless the full /24 gets blocked? Example: At 256 IPs, 1 Tor instances per IP, average speed of 10 MiB/s per Tor relay, need roughly 21 Gbps, which seems much more reasonable using 2 x 10 Gbps links on one node with ~256 cores or split across 2 nodes of each having 10 Gbps and 128 cores.
Option 3: Seems like the ideal would be however many can be utilized per available bandwidth?
Here's a rough sizing table (attached and inline) of Port Speed in Gbps needed depending on # of available IPs, # of Tor instances per IPv4 and Speed per Tor (MiB/s). Legend: <= 10 Gbps is green, <= 20 Gbps is yellow, and > 20 Gbps is red.
During the Fall of 2021, I saw ~15 MiB/s per Tor Instance and now I see around ~5 MiB/s per Tor Instance (no changes on my servers other than OS and Tor updates).
Current conclusion: I'm looking at the 256, 2, 512, 5, 2560, 21 row as where I'll likely start. 512 is a lot of Tor instances... [image.png]
~8200 relays bandwidth measured today: https://consensus-health.torproject.org/graphs.html
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On Monday, February 3rd, 2025 at 8:00 AM, usetor.wtf usetor.wtf@protonmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Looking for guidance around running high performance Tor relays on Ubuntu.
Few questions:
If a full IPv4 /24 Class C was available to host Tor relays, what are some optimal ways to allocate bandwidth, CPU cores and RAM to maximize utilization of the IPv4 /24 for Tor?
If a full 10 Gbps connection was available for Tor relays, how many CPU cores, RAM and IPv4 addresses would be required to saturate the 10 Gbps connection?
Same for a 20 Gbps connection, how many CPU cores, RAM and IPv4 addresses are required to saturate?
Thanks!
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