[tor-relays] Raspberry pi 3 relay performace

tor_manager at autistici.org tor_manager at autistici.org
Fri Oct 19 07:36:33 UTC 2018


On 2018-10-16 04:32, teor wrote:
> On 6 Oct 2018, at 09:05, tor_manager at autistici.org wrote:
> 
>> I have a tor relay running on a raspberry with raspbian 9 and tor
>> version 3.4.8, everything is working fine for more then a year.
>> I noticed that the average download/upload is just 1.5 MB and the
>> peak 3.3 MB
>> 
>> The Bandwidth configuration is the following:
>> BandwidthRate 9 MB
>> BandwidthBurst 10 MB
>> RelayBandwidthRate 9 MB
>> RelayBandwidthBurst 10 MB
>> MaxAdvertisedBandwidth 9 MB
> 
> Depending on your location in the world and the speed of your network
> connection, 20-35% utilisation is pretty normal.
> 
> (Tor load balances for throughput and latency.)
> 
>> It doesn't look the CPU or memory usage are too high.
>> Is this something normal? How can I improve the performance?
> 
> If you want your relay to use more bandwidth, stop limiting the
> bandwidth.
> 
> Remove BandwidthRate, BandwidthBurst, and MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
> from your config, then wait a week or two and see what happens.
> 
> Increase the RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst, then wait a
> week or two and see what happens.

Thanks teor, I tried to do that and nothing happened, event increasing 
to 30 MB i get 2MB maximum.

Andrea

> 
> If that doesn't work, try reading the detailed instructions here:
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/MyRelayIsSlow
> 
> T
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