[tor-relays] Overload (dropped ntor) due to DDoS??

Richard Menedetter ricsi at gmx.at
Fri Aug 5 15:32:05 UTC 2022


Hi

> > > I have a non exit relay running on a root server (4 AMD Epyc cores, 8 GB
> > > RAM, 2.5 GBit/s Ethernet) I have limited tor to numcpus 2,
> Why? Do you have other services on the server? Otherwise, omit num CPU. Let
> the tor daemon use all CPU's for crypto stuff.

Yes, there are other services running on that host, and that are the ressources I am willing to contribute to tor.
2 EPYC cores can deal easily with the crypto, especially as they are using HW crypto acceleration.

CU, Ricsi


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