[tor-relays] Issues reaching gigabit relay speeds

[torix at protonmail.com]

Just to second Matt's answer - I am running a relay in Moldova that's clocked at an average of 26 Mbit/s this month.  In June it had a peak month of 35 Mbit/s.  Your relay throughput looks very normal to me.

--Torix


Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:30 PM, Mitar <mmitar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have a gigabit connection and I am trying to utilize it as much as
> possible as a Tor relay. When I try various speed tests I get on the
> machine speeds close to gigabit, but when running Tor, I do not
> achieve anything close to it. I even started two Tor nodes on the same
> machine/connection, see here:
>
> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/567E9785458C605E59202755C74898E3C96FB1CC
> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/4CF9BAEB0DE6D7230D6B7DA0FF420C7CFD863885
>
> The utilization of the machine is pretty low, top returns:
>
> top - 20:27:33 up 4 days, 23:01, 1 user, load average: 0.32, 0.28, 0.23
> Tasks: 167 total, 1 running, 97 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> %Cpu(s): 1.6 us, 0.6 sy, 0.0 ni, 97.3 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.5 si, 0.0 st
> KiB Mem : 3772912 total, 931336 free, 1574676 used, 1266900 buff/cache
> KiB Swap: 3900412 total, 3900412 free, 0 used. 1915568 avail Mem
>
> In configuration I have:
>
> RelayBandwidthRate 125 MB
> RelayBandwidthBurst 125 MB
>
> Interesting is that it seems each Tor daemon on same machine runs
> always around 5 MiB/s, when I started the second one, it just added to
> it with another 5 MiB/s. So it is somewhere else where is the
> bottleneck?
>
> What could I do to improve things here? To me it looks like more
> throughput should be possible?
>
> Mitar
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> http://mitar.tnode.com/
> https://twitter.com/mitar_m
>
> tor-relays mailing list
> tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays