init.d script for multi instance TOR servers

[Olaf Selke]

On 06.09.2010 01:48, Moritz Bartl wrote:

> Only Blutmagie seems to be able to push more, which suggests that
> - there is a bottleneck in Tor
> or
> - there is indeed not more demand for Tor traffic on the ports we allow
> or
> - there aren't enough middle nodes?

depending on your tcp timeout parameters you need a lot of local ports.
Did you verify the number of Tor tcp sessions isn't limited by
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range?

Here's Blutmagie's setting:

anonymizer2:/# sysctl net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024     65535

regards Olaf