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Dear Tor package maintainers for FreeBSD and OpenBSD,

I wrote/I'm writing an ansible [1] role for tor relay operators [2]. Besides supporting Linux I'm also aiming to supporting OpenBSD and FreeBSD.

Tor does not scale well across multiple CPU cores, to work around this issue relay operators frequently choose to run multiple tor instances on a single host.

To better support tor relay operators with this common task tor's official RPM packages recently got multi-instance support [5] and a ticket for the official debian package has been filed [6].

To better know how to proceed with my ansible role - where multi-instance support is a core feature - I'd like to know how you think about adding easy multi-instance support to your packages as well?

One way to configure a BSD system to run multiple tor instances would be to defined multiple services tor0, tor1, ... [3], but that doesn't strike me as a particular clean solution [4].

What do you think about supporting multiple tor instances with a single rc.d script that starts one tor process per available *.torrc file in (/usr/local)/etc/tor/enabled/ ?

looking forward to your comments, Nusenu

[1] http://docs.ansible.com/ [2] https://github.com/nusenu/ansible-relayor [3] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-March/006526.html [4] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-March/006527.html

[5] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14996 [6] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14995