[tor-relays] CPU usage

I beatthebastards at inbox.com
Tue Jul 8 01:26:50 UTC 2014


Julien,

That is very useful and well explained.
Thank you.

Robert


> 
> The problem with Tor is the "single-thread working" for
> encryption/relaying, so if you have a second CPU core available, may be
> you can open a second Tor instance in order to use the second core
> capacity.
> 
> In fact, when your Tor daemon reaches 100% of 1 core usage, you can see
> what is the current bandwith and set it into your torrc file as maximum.
> When a Tor instance exceeds 100% it's a little bit like a "congestion"
> into your Tor process, so it's better for 100% value to be a limit per
> Tor process.





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