init.d script for multi instance TOR servers

[Moritz Bartl]

Hi,

On 06.09.2010 01:25, Mike Perry wrote:
> Please keep us posted on your total capacity (using a network monitor
> like munin, mrtg, or the console-based nload). I find that without killing
> irqbalance and manually setting the smp_affinity, I can't push more
> than 400Mbit without a CPU hitting 100% utilization (run top then hit
> '1' - look at the idle column). Moritz has found the same. 

That sounds like you are able to push more than that after tweaking? My
CPU usage is okay now (around 50-70%), but I am still unable to push
more than an average of 200 Mbit/s per direction, with a maximum of 240
Mbit/s. Judging from the Torstatus page, yours don't perform much better?

http://us1.torservers.net/stats/graph_6.html (M = MByte/s)

Only Blutmagie seems to be able to push more, which suggests that
- there is a bottleneck in Tor
or
- there is indeed not more demand for Tor traffic on the ports we allow
or
- there aren't enough middle nodes?

Moritz