Tor client performance (was Re: URGENT: patch needed ASAP for authority bug)

[Olaf Selke]

Scott Bennett wrote:
>
>      Maybe, but what is the limit on open fd's in LINUX?  How about
> per-process limits?  OTOH, you might run a couple of copies in VMs, each
> running their own LINUX, to get around the host LINUX limits.  But with
> as many connections as your Internet link's throughput seems to support,
> quadrupling the number of connections in a single host OS will probably
> run out of something or other fairly quickly.

imo running onion routers on virtual machines sucks and should be
avoided if possible. And I don't like the idea to spend my time with
server administration. Number of open tcp sessions seem to be under
control with the recent patch, I'm convinced it's possible to run four
tor instances on a single Linux kernel.

According Roger's info concerting only two possible routers bound to a
single address, I moved the address 192.251.226.205 from my tns machine
running the apache web server to the faster box running the tor
application. As a collateral damage the very old tns link
http://anonymizer.blutmagie.de:2505 doesn't work any more.

Olaf