[tor-relays] High speed exit question

[Alexander Dietrich]

In case you haven't already seen it, you should only run two Tor
processes per IP address: 

https://www.torservers.net/wiki/setup/server#multiple_tor_processes 

Best regards, 

Alexander 

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On 2015-01-02 17:06, Kura wrote: 

> Thanks for the replies, I'll run multiple instances from one box then. =)
> 
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> Kura 
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>> On 02/01/2015 16:05:44, Sebastian Urbach <sebastian at urbach.org> wrote: Hi Kura, 
>> 
>> On January 2, 2015 4:58:42 PM "Kura" wrote: 
>> 
>>> Hey guys, I recently decided to get myself an 8 core, 16 GB RAM machine to 
>>> use for running an exit relay and was wondering, Tor only works on one 
>>> core, even setting NumCPUs to 2 doesn't do a whole lot so, how is it even 
>>> possible to get more than maybe, 300Mbps or so from one relay? Maybe I'm 
>>> missing something but, running multiple Tor processes is just going to have 
>>> multiple relays with different OR and Dir ports for each, right? 
>> 
>> You are right, the multithreading capabilities are very limited. You need 
>> to set up more than one to handle more traffic. 
>> 
>>> 
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>>> Kura 
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>> Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations 
>> 
>> Sebastian Urbach 
>> 
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