[tor-relays] Status of UserspaceIOCPBuffers ??

Nick Mathewson nickm at freehaven.net
Tue Sep 3 16:48:55 UTC 2013


On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Gordon Morehouse <gordon at morehouse.me> wrote:
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> So in the documentation:
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> UserspaceIOCPBuffers 0|1
> If IOCP is enabled (see DisableIOCP above), setting this option to 1
> will tell Tor to disable kernel-space TCP buffers, in order to avoid
> needless copy operations and try not to run out of non-paged RAM. This
> feature is experimental; don’t use it yet unless you’re eager to help
> tracking down bugs. (Default: 0)
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> Is this description still accurate, or is it better debugged nowadays?

It's still correct.

>  Would this be useful to set on machines with limited memory
> resources, e.g. the Raspberry Pi?

Probably not -- it has no effect except on Windows.

-- 
Nick


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