[tor-relays] Tor relay on Rapsberry Pi 2

I beatthebastards at inbox.com
Thu Apr 9 13:55:11 UTC 2015


Juris,

Is the reason so much is going through it that it is in a data centre?
I thought Raspberry Pis would only let through so little that they were dragging the speed down.
Have you put up anything on the web on it?

Robert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: juris at torservers.net
> Sent: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:05:27 +0200
> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay on Rapsberry Pi 2
> 
> Hi AVee,
> 
> I'm running a Tor relay on a Banana Pi (1GHz Dualcore, Cortex-A7):
> https://globe.torproject.org/#/search/query=cherryjam
> 
> That's what vnstat says:
> 
> month        rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
> Feb '15      4.23 TiB |    4.36 TiB |    8.60 TiB |   30.52 Mbit/s
> Mar '15      5.33 TiB |    5.50 TiB |   10.83 TiB |   34.73 Mbit/s
> 
> The DC has a dedicated 100Mbit/s connection for my device.
> 
> So the Raspberry Pi2 should be able to push at least the same amount of
> traffic.
> 
> 
> Juris Vetra
> https://www.torservers.net/
> 
> 
> Am 09.04.2015 um 14:28 schrieb AVee:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I happened to get my hands on a Raspberry Pi 2 and I was wondering if
>> anyone already has any experience running Tor on the this. There is
>> quite some info about running Tor on the original Raspberry Pi, and the
>> performance seems to be a bit lacking. The Pi 2 however comes with
>> higher clocked quad core Cortex-A7 which should bring an descend in
>> increase in performance. So I'm curious about the throughput a Tor relay
>> on the Pi 2 would achieve.
>> 
>> Did anyone here try running Tor on a Raspberry Pi 2 already? And if not,
>> is there any way to test the achievable throughput without joining
>> actually adding the relay to the Tor network (and having to go through
>> the full life cycle)?
>> 
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