[tor-relays] Throughput changes?

[I]

Moritz,

How would I know that it is alright to run more than one instance of Tor?
Is it possible to prevent cpu use from causing VPS businesses threatening suspension?

Robert



> First of all, if you don't limit your relay bandwidth and hit CPU
> limits, this will have a negative impact for Tor users. So you should
> always make sure that CPU (single core!) usage stays well below 100%. An
> indicator of a CPU-bound problem are log entries like
> 
> "Failed to hand off onionskin. Closing. Your computer is too slow to
> handle this many circuit creation requests!"
> 
> Judging from Atlas, your relay might have just gotten the Stable flag.
> For details, see
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay
>