Tor consuming much CPU & RAM (?)

[phobos at rootme.org]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 10:02:14PM +0200, morphium at morphium.info wrote 0.7K bytes in 14 lines about:
: I have an Intel Pentium 4 3.20GHz and 2 gigabytes of ram, so I don't understand why tor is so bad for my load.

Onion routing is cryptographically intense.  If you can run an oprofile
on tor on your cpu, we can see what calls are consuming the most cpu.
Most likely, it isn't tor but openssl.  Unfortunately, there isn't much
we can do about this.  

Thanks for running a node, everyone appreciates it.

-- 
Andrew