Call for discussion: turning funding into more exit relays
Hello! I saw this posted on slashdot and think this is an excellent way to donate some of our time and expertise, especially considering Internet access has been declared a human right by the UN. We currently colocate with a provider and will be inquiring with them if they are OK with hosting Tor, (the post here: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node-minimal-harassment was extremely helpful for other just joining and we will be following such advice when we bring it up with our provider). Ball park quotes we got were 99$ / 100 Mbps or $599 / 1000 Mbps for transit for a single 1U... we'll see if we can get something better... Would this be helpful / viable option for a Tor exit node ? I also had just one question: what are the specs required for a Tor node? It does not seem too resource intensive but I have not been able to find any minimum system requirements. Would a current / last-generation quad core with 8GB + would suffice? Best, Sri
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:48:16PM -0700, Sriakhil Gogineni wrote:
Ball park quotes we got were 99$ / 100 Mbps or $599 / 1000 Mbps for transit for a single 1U... we'll see if we can get something better...
That's a good quote for 1Gbps.
Would this be helpful / viable option for a Tor exit node ?
Yes.
I also had just one question: what are the specs required for a Tor node? It does not seem too resource intensive but I have not been able to find any minimum system requirements. Would a current / last-generation quad core with 8GB + would suffice?
A quad-core Xeon X3350 at 2.66 GHz can easily push 500 Mbps of Tor throughput (500 Mbps up, 500 Mbps down). CPU is a fairly limiting factor. Having AES-NI is a benefit. 8GB RAM is reasonable; there's no reason to have more, but less is a tight squeeze. -andy
Just throwing my 2 cents in, we're running loki <http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=088adab38da02bd83286872120f85259d44ded88> on a decade old dell pe1950 p3 (32bit) w/ 2GB of ram. We average about 5.2 Mbps of traffic. That said I'm looking forward to seeing what increases a 64 cpu would bring. -kupo On 07/26/2012 07:28 AM, Andy Isaacson wrote:
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:48:16PM -0700, Sriakhil Gogineni wrote:
Ball park quotes we got were 99$ / 100 Mbps or $599 / 1000 Mbps for transit for a single 1U... we'll see if we can get something better... That's a good quote for 1Gbps.
Would this be helpful / viable option for a Tor exit node ? Yes.
I also had just one question: what are the specs required for a Tor node? It does not seem too resource intensive but I have not been able to find any minimum system requirements. Would a current / last-generation quad core with 8GB + would suffice? A quad-core Xeon X3350 at 2.66 GHz can easily push 500 Mbps of Tor throughput (500 Mbps up, 500 Mbps down). CPU is a fairly limiting factor. Having AES-NI is a benefit. 8GB RAM is reasonable; there's no reason to have more, but less is a tight squeeze.
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