Performance

Juliusz Chroboczek Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr
Fri Oct 24 21:28:54 UTC 2008


> True, I did take that into account. I could be mistaken but I think the main
> problem lies with the proxy software. I think that Polipo and, especially,
> Privoxy are pretty resource intensive, and affect performance more than Tor
> itself.

Polipo has been shown to be faster than most browsers' implementation of
HTTP.

As for resources consumed, people are running Polipo on embedded routers
with 16 MB of memory.

                                        Juliusz



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