[tor-relays] relays with dynamic IP - here Rasp2

Roman Mamedov rm at romanrm.net
Wed Dec 7 09:07:18 UTC 2016


On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 11:02:59 +0200
"Rana" <ranaventures at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> Wow nice bandwidth you are pushing through Paul! You mean two Raspi 2's sharing an Internet connection, each relaying 27 Gbytes per day at 5.4 Mbit/s on the average?? Total 10.8 Mbit/s?? Or 2.7 Mbit/s each?
> > 
> > It is just 1 single Rasp2 - running 2 tor instances on 1 IP, details 
> > here 
> > https://gitweb.torproject.org/debian/tor.git/tree/debian/tor-instance-create.8.txt
> 
> Any specific reason you have for running 2 instances of Tor on the same Raspi instead of one?

It has 4 cores, and a single instance of Tor cannot utilize all of them. It
only uses one core and maybe 20-30% at most of another.

Ideally you would run 3-4 Tor instances on a 4-core machine (if RAM allows),
but the maximum allowed by the Tor authority servers is 2 per IPv4.

-- 
With respect,
Roman


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