[tor-relays] Raspberry Pi Relay Node Performance and future Plans on Documentation and more

[Gordon Morehouse]

Bill Waggoner:
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Gordon Morehouse <gordon at morehouse.me> wrote:
>> Michael Berlin:
[snip]
>>> there. Monitoring everything with "arm" is also nice but far too CPU
>>> intensive.
>>
>> A quick thought - can we pull together data on tor monitoring utilities
>> and then figure out the best bang for armhf CPU buck?
>>
>> 'nload' is good, but doesn't tell me much about *tor's* condition (other
>> than it's probably not dead if there's still traffic flowing).  It'd be
>> nice to have some notion of circuits open, circuit creation rate, and
>> tor's memory and CPU usage all on one screen, like 'arm', but lighter.
>>
>> I agree about 'arm', BTW.  I use it for tuning on my x86-based relays,
>> but it's buggy and it is really too heavy for the Pi's CPU.  Maybe I
>> should try to see if I can get 'arm' to run under PyPy[1] - I wonder if
>> PyPy is faster on armhf like it can be on x86 and amd64.
>>
>> [1] http://pypy.org/

I've submitted a ticket to the Tor Project trac about this, full well
realizing that my current main role is spewing ideas around with
basically zero time to help implement them.  :(

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9403

-Gordon