Ideas on increasing the significance of tor

[Olaf Selke]

Michael Holstein wrote:
> 
> Two ideas :
> 
> run multiple instances (and use family option), and let each instance
> handle ($X) amount of traffic.

at this moment on my box the tor process allocates about 2,3 gig virtual
memory respectively 1,5 gig of non-swapped physical memory:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
15486 debian-t  25   0 2329m 1.5g  25m S   75 78.2  17930:45 tor

So running multiple instances seems not an option. My box only is
equipped with 2 gig RAM.

> run tor using hardware crypto acceleration (it's sort-of supported,
> usually via patches to OpenSSL)

can you give me a hint about OpenSSL supported crypto hardware?

regards, Olaf