[tor-relays] High speed Tor relay advice

[s7r]

Hello,

In this case I suggest you run two separate Tor instances on the same IP
address (it is the maximum allowed). When I say 2 Tor instances I mean 2
separate data directories with separate identities.

If it's a VPS it's already a VM. It does not make sense to create a vm
inside a vm. You can use linux containers or FreeBSD jails if you are on
FreeBSD which work fine in virtual machines, one for each Tor instance.

P.S. If you can, make them exit relays if they're not already. It's not
that much of a hassle, if the provider is mentally sane and just
forwards you the abuse complaints with request to reply within 24 hours.
Most of them are automated emails which do not require replies, and the
rare ones which require reply are from people who just don't know what
Tor is, just explain and they will understand.

On 8/14/2016 5:39 PM, i3 wrote:
> Hey!
> 
> So the server is technically a VPS, it is a slice of a larger server
> that is shared with 5 other people. Though I still have full root
> access. So the whole 10gb/s is not just for me, but from my tests I can
> at least get a few gigabit in real world speeds sustained.
> 
> CPU: 6x Xeon E5-2620v3 vCores
> RAM: 10GB
> 
> I only get one IP address to myself by default. I could probably get
> more though if I feel it is worth it.
> 
> 
> On 14/08/16 15:27, s7r wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> That's neat! Thanks for contributing.
>>
>> How many CPU's / CPU cores does this new server have and does it use
>> AES-NI? How much RAM? Does it have multiple public IP addresses?
>>
>> Currently it's complicated for a single Tor process to saturate a 10Gb/s
>> line, because it's not yet able to use all CPU cores.
>>
>> What I would do if I had multiple public IP addresses: make 4-5 virtual
>> machines, with 1 CPU core each and reasonable RAM (say 8GB per virtual
>> machine) and run 4-5 different relays that would all combined come close
>> to saturate the 10Gb/s link.
>>
>> On 8/14/2016 5:09 PM, i3 wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've ran multiple Tor relays before but I have moved to a new server and
>>> would like some advice.
>>>
>>> My new server has 10Gb/s connection (I've observed it at 900MB/s to the
>>> drives) with plenty of CPU and RAM to complement. I typically use
>>> default configurations on my relays but I feel that to get the most out
>>> of this one I'll need to do some configuration to tweak it.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have advice on getting the most out of this server, in terms
>>> of speed?
>>>
>>> Thanks

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