Hi Julien,

thats exactly the setup I'm actually using. I use my relay as a client.

>From my point of view it seems that the relay is used as a entry point
(without guard flag) in this constellation (correct me if I'm wrong).

Torsocks could solve my problem.

My goal is to examine the influence of a high traffic load on my relay
to perhaps adjust my server settings (number of open file descriptors,
...).



Am 11.01.2015 um 13:05 schrieb Julien ROBIN:
> Hi,
> 
> If you are on a dedicated high Bandwidth server you can maybe use your relay 
> as client, an idea could be to open a lot of "wget" commands.
> 
> sudo apt-get install torsocks
> usewithtor wget URL
> 
> But it's not guaranteed that the selected circuits will be super-fast (first 
> reason to open lot of wgets simultaneously)
> 
> Of course, doing that you consume some useful bandwidth for users (but if 
> it's quick, after all you're a Tor user like another!)
> 
> And it's not totally the same that relaying data as server, since it's using 
> the client part of the tor process (but starting from here, I cannot help you 
> anymore since I don't know what is written in the code ;)
> 
> So if anybody have another better idea
> Something that would generate a full customized circuit for example, or 
> reduce the amount of used hop for the test. 
> 
> It already exists "EntryNodes" and "ExitNodes" commands for your torrc file, 
> but no server can be used as EntryNode if it's not Guard already, and I'm not 
> sure that some "MiddleNodes" command exists.
> 
> 
> Last things, you can also make you machine's CPU working hard on a lot of 
> threads simultaneously, and watch if Tor is suffering or not (like "too many 
> circuit creation request!" in the log).
> 
> Or make some tests with Iperf for high bandwidth load in parallel ("iperf -s" 
> on a fast machine, "ipers -c Ip -t TimeInSeconds -p port -P 
> ParallelsTcpConnexions" on the other machine - this one will send data 
> (chains of 1234567890123...) to the server)
> 
> Good luck ! By curiosity, I'm interested also, but I would understand if this 
> kind of easiness in creating bandwidth statistics and degraded path (for 
> analysis, for example) is not really sought by developers.
> 
> Best regards,
> Julien ROBIN
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "webmaster" <webmas...@defcon-cc.dyndns.org>
> À: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
> Envoyé: Dimanche 11 Janvier 2015 11:59:12
> Objet: [tor-relays] Simulate High Tor Load
> 
> Hey Folks,
> 
> is there a common procedure for testing a tor server for a high load?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 

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