Re: [tor-relays] Running on a Raspberry Pi

On Sep 9, 2019, at 19:16, William Denton wtd@pobox.com wrote:

Now I'm trying it on a Pi Four (which has four CPUs and two gigs of RAM) and so far it's working, though it's not moving as much traffic as on the laptop.

From what I have read about the Pi 4, heat is a big issue. If you're not doing something to cool it, your CPU speed is likely being throttled due to overheating. Also, I do not think that Tor will make effective use of the additional cores. I know a lot of folks run relays on Raspberry Pi devices, but I doubt they are great performers. (I run Tor on a number of Pi's, from Zero W's to 3's, but they're location hidden servers so I don't know how well they work as relays.)

--Ron