Re: [tor-relays] Setting up relay on fedora

2014-07-08 Thread brian
Joker, See here: https://www.torproject.org/docs/rpms.html.en and https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en Cheers, -B On July 8, 2014 3:14:07 PM CDT, Joker Hacker wrote: >I would like to setup tor relay on my fedora box it runs 16 to 18hrs a >day.' >Could you please point appr

[tor-relays] Setting up relay on fedora

2014-07-08 Thread Joker Hacker
I would like to setup tor relay on my fedora box it runs 16 to 18hrs a day.' Could you please point appropriate links or videos? - Thanks ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/to

Re: [tor-relays] Reliable way to gauge tor throttling?

2014-07-08 Thread ra
On Sunday 06 July 2014 22:05:26 ja...@icetor.is wrote: > What would be a good method to determine if tor traffic is being > throttled on a exit relay vs normal internet traffic? Do you want to answer if an exit relay has "RelayBandwidthRate" set or if other kinds of traffic shaping are in use? B

Re: [tor-relays] CPU usage

2014-07-08 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 09:44:57 -0400 (EDT) "Steve Snyder" wrote: > > ...renice to 10... > > This is good for the Tor process itself, but disadvantages other processes. > If your server is doing name resolution (as an exit node) the resolver may be > impacted, which in turn will hamper handling of

Re: [tor-relays] CPU usage

2014-07-08 Thread kingqueen
Hello Steve, >> ...renice to 10... > This is good for the Tor process itself, but disadvantages other > processes. If your server is doing name resolution (as an exit node) > the resolver may be impacted, which in turn will hamper handling of exit > traffic. > If you're running as a middle node

Re: [tor-relays] CPU usage

2014-07-08 Thread Steve Snyder
> ...renice to 10... This is good for the Tor process itself, but disadvantages other processes. If your server is doing name resolution (as an exit node) the resolver may be impacted, which in turn will hamper handling of exit traffic. If you're running as a middle node then Never Mind. On T

Re: [tor-relays] CPU usage

2014-07-08 Thread kingqueen
Thank you to all for the useful information; especially to Roman, Julien and Scott. I want to make optimal use of my existing dedi rather than hiring a more powerful one, so I've set NumCPUs to 2, renice to 10 and will reboot (as the latter is an init script I guess reboot is necessary.) I will th

Re: [tor-relays] CPU usage

2014-07-08 Thread Scott Bennett
Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 23:30:22 -0700 > "Asa Rossoff" wrote: > > > With hyperthreading, I think 4 would be optimal? > > Yes, 4 can be set, but I remember reading somewhere that Tor doesn't scale > well beyond NumCPUs 2 (and poorly even to 2). See my previous note in this

Re: [tor-relays] CPU usage

2014-07-08 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 23:30:22 -0700 "Asa Rossoff" wrote: > With hyperthreading, I think 4 would be optimal? Yes, 4 can be set, but I remember reading somewhere that Tor doesn't scale well beyond NumCPUs 2 (and poorly even to 2). One way to increase utilization further would be to run a second ins

Re: [tor-relays] CPU usage

2014-07-08 Thread Scott Bennett
"Asa Rossoff" wrote: > On 7 July 2014, 04:49 UTC, Roman Mamedov wrote: > > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:31:02 +0100 > > kingqueen wrote: > > > > > [stuff deleted --SB] > > > > Set "NumCPUs 2" in your torrc to make it try utilizing the second core > > too > > (this won't help much, but at least some

Re: [tor-relays] CPU usage

2014-07-08 Thread Asa Rossoff
On 7 July 2014, 04:49 UTC, Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:31:02 +0100 > kingqueen wrote: > > > Hi, I'm running a Tor relay on a low cost dedicated server. > > > > The tor relay is named kingqueen and it's running on an Intel Atom > N2700 dual core hyperthreaded CPU with 2gb of memo