Performance optimizations for high-bandwidth Tor exit

Sat Dec 20 11:54:26 UTC 2008

6cnf6cp02 at sneakemail.com wrote:

> Are there any performance tweaks to limit Tor's CPU consumption? 

Compiling the openSSL library source code package with Intel's C compiler icc
instead of using the gcc-precompiled Debian package tor's performance increased
about 25% on my Intel Xeon Linux box anonymizer.blutmagie.de.

Compiling tor with icc doesn't change any thing noticeable.

cheers Olaf