[tor-relays] boost CPU on a Tor relay

Moritz Bartl moritz at torservers.net
Tue Sep 9 11:43:15 UTC 2014


On 09/09/2014 01:28 PM, s7r wrote:
> A Tor relay currently going 33MB/s could go a lot faster but CPU is at
> 93% usage - this is the bottleneck. Here is the output of /proc/cpuinfo

93% CPU across _all_ cores for 33MB/s sounds a bit too heavy. Are you
maybe only running one instance of Tor and it maxes out one core? Spread
the load to more cores then, and limit each of the relay processes so it
stays well below 90%.

https://www.torservers.net/wiki/setup/server#multiple_tor_processes

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Moritz Bartl
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