Active Attacks - Already in Progress?

Olaf Selke olaf.selke at blutmagie.de
Thu Nov 25 13:46:34 UTC 2010


On 25.11.2010 08:17, Damian Johnson wrote:
> The reason the operators of the largest tor relays (Blutmagie,
> TorServers, and Amunet) operate multiple instance is because this is
> the best way in practice for utilizing large connections. 

yep, all four blutmagie nodes are running on a single quad core cpu. The
Tor application doesn't scale very well with the number of cores. Thus
starting multiple instances on a single piece of hardware is the
cheapest option to make use of a gigabit uplink.

Olaf
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