Honestly I have no idea how provides would enforce that rule anyway for that very reason. My guess is that it's a technicality, since Tor _can_ but isn't specifically _designed_ to max CPU usage.

On Aug 21, 2016 10:47 PM, "Green Dream" greendream848@gmail.com wrote:

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Most AUPs ban the use of programs designed to use 100% CPU

A well-utilized Tor node will max out CPU...

Mine hasn't. It peaks at about 30%. It can't even hit the 150Mbps limit I set.

Let me rephrase it then: a well-utilized Tor node _can_ max out CPU.

I have two guard/middle nodes with maxed out cores. CPU is actually their bottleneck. They have high consensus weight and get a lot of use though.

My point was just that if a VPS provider has a policy against software that maxes out CPU, Tor could cause that condition. Whether or not a provider would actually enforce this against a Tor node is another question. I haven't heard of it happening but ¯_(ツ)_/¯ _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays