[tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

David Fifield david at bamsoftware.com
Sat Dec 10 04:42:44 UTC 2022


On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 08:43:26AM +0000, Gary C. New wrote:
> In my implementation of the loadbalanced OBFS4 configuration, it appears that BridgeDB still tests the ORPort for availability and without it marks the OBFS4 bridge as being down.

I see. Then yes, I suppose it is still necessary to expose the ORPort.

> I gather that default bridges don't require a DistributionMethod as your loadbalanced Snowflake configuration is set to "none?"

That's correct. Default bridges are not distributed by rdsys, they are
distributed in the configuration of Tor Browser itself. See
extensions.torlauncher.default_bridge.* in about:config.


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