[tor-relays] How to fully utilize resources for relay?

Steve Snyder swsnyder at snydernet.net
Wed Aug 3 01:21:27 UTC 2011


I built the Tor binary myself, statically-linked against builds of the 
latest library versions: openssl, libevent, and zlib.  I'm also using 
the OpenBSD malloc that comes with the Tor tarball.

BTW, the openssl performance is twice that of the old version that comes 
with CentOS v5.x!

I doesn't seem likely that rebuilding the kernel will yield much 
benefit, and I don't see that Tor relies much on external libraries.

Thanks for the response.


On 08/02/2011 08:55 PM, Andrew Lewis wrote:
> Tons of things, recompiling, optimizing the OS, updating libevent,
> running multiple daemons.
>
> For some good guides on howto run a faster exit node, look at:
> https://www.torservers.net/wiki/setup/server and poke around that site
> to see more suggestions.
>
>
> -Andrew
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Steve Snyder <swsnyder at snydernet.net
> <mailto:swsnyder at snydernet.net>> wrote:
>
>     I have a machine that is dedicated to being a Tor exit node. How can
>     I maximize the performance (high throughput / low latency) of Tor
>     traffic?
>
>     I have plenty of under-utilized CPU and RAM resources on this
>     system. According to TorStatus, my bandwidth is rarely maxed-out.
>
>     This is on a Linux system, currently running Tor v0.2.2.30-rc.
>
>     So... what resources can I spend to make this a better Tor node?
>
>     Thanks.
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