On 2013-10-14 22:01, Chris Whittleston wrote:
I see - so I'll probably still see the problem with a huge number of circuits being created after I've finished building 0.2.4. Is there any way to limit this, I'm guessing reducing the bandwidth wouldn't actually help? I guess I'll look into how much further I can overclock the CPU...
Only option that I know of is to reduce the bandwidth you advertise to the network. The more bandwidth you advertise the more circuits the tor network will throw at your relay. The following flags in the torrc file can be used (with my current understanding of them): BandwidthRate : The max bandwidth you provide over a long period of time BandwidthBurst : The max bandwidth you provide over a short period of time MaxAdvertisedBandwidth : The max bandwidth you tell the tor network about So you can set BandwidthRate to the real max you want to provide and then set MaxAdvertisedBandwidth to a number low enough to prevent circuit overload.