[tor-relays] multi tor instance support for startup scripts

[Daniel Jakots]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 16:19:11 +0100, Ondrej Mikle
<ondrej.mikle at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Nusenu <nusenu at openmailbox.org>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I just filed two tickets to add support for multiple tor instances
> > to the official deb/rpm packages.
> >
> > I think this is useful for many relay operators (so they don't have
> > to replace the init scripts themselves anymore).
> >  
> 
> I actually can't see how it can be useful except for Sybil attack.

It's useful on big nodes. Due to technical limitations in how Tor handle
multicore, we need to run multiple daemons on a same host so it scales
better with the CPU. Even if you have AES-NI.

Cheers,
Vigdis