[tor-relays] How effective is "NumCPUs"?

[Jobiwan Kenobi]

On Jan 24, 2014, at 10:49 , Alexander Dietrich wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> a relay I'm running is currently at about 0.80 load average. It has a dual-core CPU and I have configured "NumCPUs 2". I'm still in the process of finding the bandwidth limit.
> 
> Should I keep increasing "RelayBandwidthRate" on the single Tor process, or is it a better idea to start a second process?

In my experience, CPU load does not depend much on the amount of traffic, but much more on the number of connections/handshakes.