Re: [tor-relays] Getting max bandwidth out of a relay

2013-09-12 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > As I am trying to avoid using too many IPs (IPv4 is constrainted, IPv6 > is not, but the latter won't get much traffic), I'll try if I can get my > tcp-balancer idea setup in the run of next week (low on spare cycles at > the moment) and then for

Re: [tor-relays] Getting max bandwidth out of a relay

2013-09-12 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2013-09-12 11:06 , Andy Isaacson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 05:13:04PM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: >> Are boxes that are doing these speeds running at a CPU or a network cap? >> Or maybe better asked, they do run at 100% usage of their cores or do >> they just use two/three cores to the ma

Re: [tor-relays] Getting max bandwidth out of a relay

2013-09-12 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 05:13:04PM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Are boxes that are doing these speeds running at a CPU or a network cap? > Or maybe better asked, they do run at 100% usage of their cores or do > they just use two/three cores to the max? There are three main sinks of CPU usage in a

Re: [tor-relays] Getting max bandwidth out of a relay

2013-09-11 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2013-09-11 16:48 , Moritz Bartl wrote: > Hi Jeroen, > > On 09/11/2013 02:21 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: >> What else is there to tune except for maybe running multiple Tor nodes >> on the same box? Which would require it to use multiple IPs right as one >> can only run 2 nodes on the same IP I und

Re: [tor-relays] Getting max bandwidth out of a relay

2013-09-11 Thread Stephan
On 11.09.2013 16:48, Moritz Bartl wrote: and so far every ISP was able to provide more than one IP. On a side note: At least one big hosting provider in Germany (Hetzner) has started to charge money for additional ipv4 addresses. Ipv6 addresses on the other hand are included in sufficient nu

Re: [tor-relays] Getting max bandwidth out of a relay

2013-09-11 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi Jeroen, On 09/11/2013 02:21 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: > What else is there to tune except for maybe running multiple Tor nodes > on the same box? Which would require it to use multiple IPs right as one > can only run 2 nodes on the same IP I understand. You will start to see error messages in y

[tor-relays] Getting max bandwidth out of a relay

2013-09-11 Thread Jeroen Massar
TLDR: what do people to do get the max throughput through their boxes? Hi, This might be more tor-dev related (due to the Tor internals, eg why it does not use multiple CPU cores effectively etc), but is likely a bit more appropriate here as there are people who are able to get a lot of performan