[tor-relays] boost CPU on a Tor relay

Moritz Bartl moritz at torservers.net
Tue Sep 9 11:50:36 UTC 2014


On 09/09/2014 01:43 PM, s7r wrote:
>> 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%.
> 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?

You can run as many instances as you like, but a maximum of 2 per IP.

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Moritz Bartl
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