[tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net
Tue Mar 1 05:02:04 UTC 2016


On 02/29/2016 08:50 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> On 2/29/16, Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:
>> I different question comes to mind: How many .onion domains can Tor
>> handle well? Although 80000 represents a large increase, it's a
>> minuscule fraction of the ~10^24 namespace. But I'm guessing that
>> something would break well before that. Yes?
> 
> 80000 * size of descriptor mem struct / number of hsdirs = ram per box
> plus cpu and bandwidth.

OK, so the ratio of onions to HSDirs matters. There are ~3000 HSDirs.
How much RAM do HSDirs need per descriptor?



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