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

[Gary C. New]

On Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 10:11:41 AM PST, David Fifield <david at bamsoftware.com> wrote:
 
> The Snowflake proxy is not a pluggable transport. You just > run it as a
> normal command-line program. There is no torrc involved, and the proxy
> does not interact with a tor process at all.

Thank you for the clarification. It seems I incorrectly assumed that extor-static-cookie was a wrapper for snowflake-proxy.

"To work around this problem, there is a shim called extor-static-cookie that presents an ExtORPort with a fixed, unchanging authentication key on a static port, and forwards the connections (again as ExtORPort) to tor, using that instance of tor's authentication key on an ephemeral port. One extor-static-cookie process is run per instance of tor, using ServerTransportPlugin and ServerTransportListenAddr."
Am I correct in assuming extor-static-cookie is only useful within the context of bridging connections between snowflake-server and tor (not as a pluggable transport similar to obfs4proxy)?
What about a connection flow of haproxy/nginx => (snowflake-server => extor-static-cookie => tor) on separate servers?
Thanks, again.

Gary  
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