[tor-relays] Single IP multiple OR Ports

[toxi roxi]

Hi Moritz,

im running a few high bandwidth relays, and i'm also interested in tuning
the performance - at the moment i have experienced following things
regarding AES-NI acceleration:

With an upgrade to ubuntu 13.10 x64 there seem to be no more support for
aesni module - so it doesnt seem to be usable any more. With older ubuntu
releases it works.
I've recognized that some configurations are running easily with an higher
throughput - but could not figure out whats the reason for it.
My VPS'es are almost running in an KVM environment - but the 2 fastest ones
running on OpenVZ hypervisor. Processor and Hardware underlying are not
identical (corei7 or Xeon E3 in this case) so this doesnt seem to be a
reason though for the different speed.


But anyway im interested on reactivating that function as it seems to
really speedup relay's speed.

Thanks,
Geri





2014-03-04 0:40 GMT+01:00 Moritz Bartl <moritz at torservers.net>:

> On 03/03/2014 11:53 PM, Felix wrote:
> > In case there is a strong relay ie 1Gbit/s, enough cores and RAM
> > so the HW is not limiting. Let's further assume only one IP.
> >
> > Could a single Tor daemon on Debian be a bottle neck?
> > If yes, could be more performance to start two (or more) daemons and
> > bind the first OR Port to :443 and the second to :8080. Both at the same
> > 'eth' interface?
> > Both OR Ports are based on the same IP so they would be the same family
> > member.
>
> Yes, you do want to run multiple Tor processes on a high bandwidth
> machine as Tor currently does not scale well across multiple CPU cores.
> You will notice that you will hit a CPU limit at ~100 Mbps (or ~300-400
> Mbps with a CPU that supports AES-NI crypto acceleration).
>
> But, currently, you can only run two Tor process per IP address.
>
> Relays in the same /16 IPv4 subnets are considered part of one family
> automatically.
>
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