On 01/10/2013 03:34, The Doctor wrote:
That reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask lately...
Has anyone tried running Tor on top of OSv (http://osv.io/)?
As I understand it, OSv is an ultra-small OS which is Linux API-compatible and designed for running a single app only atop a virtualization stack. For example, it should, in theory, be possible to run the Tor daemon within a copy of OSv, that would be the only application running inside of that VM, and it should be running like greased lightning because it would be the only process running in that VM.
First, I see no figures about the alleged performance of OSv. Secondly, I suspect that the kernel overhead, on a reasonable Tor node, is negligible when compared to book-keeping, crypto operations and so on. However, I'm also curious, so tell us if you try it :-)