[tor-relays] running multiple bridges on one machine?

yl tor at yl.ms
Tue Apr 28 15:45:44 UTC 2015


Am 28.04.2015 um 03:30 schrieb syndikal:
> let's begin: is it possible to run 5 bridges on one low-end VPS? each
> bridge would be hosted on a different IP address from five different /24
> IP blocks, so that's not an issue. would i have to use multiple Tor
> processes, and would 5 processes be too much for a 2-core VPS with
> 256mb memory?
> 
> also, how much bandwidth does a bridge normally burn through per month?
> on said VPS, the economical choice is to provide 200gb bandwidth per
> month. if that is not sufficient, the offer isn't financially feasible.

I run a tor relay on some Atom processor, the bottleneck is the missing
AES-NI I think, however on 100MBit/s it only makes 35MBit/s with one CPU
core being loaded 100% and the other 3 at ~10%. My relay makes a few
TB/month like that, so I guess it is still good to keep it running.

Greetings
yl



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