Hi Moritz, Excerpts from Moritz Bartl's message of Wed Sep 04 13:17:04 +0200 2013:
If you see a maxed out CPU core, what you might want to try is run multiple Tor processes in parallel. We do that, although usually for modern CPUs this is only necessary at and above roughly 100 Mbit/s.
https://www.torservers.net/wiki/setup/server#multiple_tor_processes
Thanks, I'll try setting this up to make better use of the hardware. I assume the crashes will also go away once we're operating in a more normal load regime, though of course I'd prefer to find the root cause there.
ciao,