[tor-relays] automation needs of big relay ops (implemented as ansible role)

Nusenu nusenu at openmailbox.org
Tue Feb 17 22:48:20 UTC 2015


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Moritz Bartl:
> On 02/17/2015 11:25 PM, Nusenu wrote:
>> I'm wondering if simply (blindly) running two tor processes per 
>> available IP is any worse than anything else from a pure "lets
>> push as much traffic as we can" (on a host not on a tor process
>> level).
> 
> I don't see a problem with that either, unless the destination is
> CPU or memory constrained.
> 
> We have (and had) servers with 16 IPs -- Dual Core, 2-4GB RAM, 100 
> Mbit/s and less. Maybe not too nice to spin up 32 Tor relays on
> such machines? But I think in general it is fair to go with "2 per
> IP", and expect the server to be configured to listen on a sane
> number of IPs.

I'm wondering why a relay (not bridge) op would order that many IP
addresses on a host were he can not make use of it, but adding a
simple check like "stop creating new instances once RAM/instancecount
below X" is possible (or "ok lets use the remaining IPs for bridges" ;).
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