[tor-relays] TOR Relay performance issue

[Roman Mamedov]

On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 16:55:12 +0100
Thomas Maurice <thomas at maurice.fr> wrote:

> It is supposed to be caped at 20MBps, and 25MBps burst so I doubt the
> limitation I am observing is enforced by the node itself.

You mean traffic limitation in torrc? Remove it. There is no reason to apply
bandwidth caps unless you want to run other tasks on the same connection, or
it's metered per transfer amounts. If neither is the case, you only tie down
your Tor with pointless housekeeping to track limits (which likely won't be
reached anyways).

As for what to do for better utilization, set up a second instance of Tor.
Tor is poorly multithreaded, and one instance on its own, even with NumCPU
specified, is not able to utilize more than about 1.3 CPU cores.

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With respect,
Roman