[tor-relays] boost CPU on a Tor relay

s7r s7r at sky-ip.org
Tue Sep 9 11:43:53 UTC 2014


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On 9/9/2014 2:43 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote:
> 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
>
> 
Yes, it's one Tor instance - I thought it will use the network better
this way. How many Tor instances should be there 4 or 8?

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