[tor-relays] What kind of hardware do I need for my relay

[Farid Joubbi]

OK. I thought from the beginning that my relay running the Banana Pi would be capable of handling more traffic.
I have asked about it before, and got some really good answers.
I still can't completely explain why it does not handle more.
You can read about it here:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2016-September/010142.html

The relay is still up, you can see a link to atlas on that thread.
It has become a bit unstable lately and stops responding for some unknown reason.
I don't know why the amount of traffic about doubled in October.

I ran a relay on a Intel NUC on OpenBSD for a few months.
The traffic through that relay was very very low compared with my expectations.
I got an answer from this list that the OS is most probably the one to blame.
It has been shown that OpenBSD has a lower throughput of Tor traffic compared with FreeBSD and Linux.
I have not found an answer to why it is so.
Still I think it's a good thing for Tor to have the diversity of different OSes running the network.

I don't understand why Atlas shows the amount of traffic in Bytes instead of bits.
I just know that it is so and that it has confused more than one person in the past.

So in conclusion, I'm more confused now than I ever was before ;-)

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From: tor-relays <tor-relays-bounces at lists.torproject.org> on behalf of Andreas Krey <a.krey at gmx.de>
Sent: 21 March 2017 20:53
To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] What kind of hardware do I need for my relay

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 22:49:53 +0000, Farid Joubbi wrote:
> I do mean Megabits.
> I have learned a long time ago that Tor traffic throughput can't be compared with ssh.

No, but it can be used to roughly judge what the hardware is capable of.
It doesn't help to throw more hardware at a node when it just doesn't get
more traffic from the network.

Last year one of my node's traffic increased about tenfold
in the span of a month, without reason or rhyme as seen in
https://blog.apk.li/2017/01/29/tor-relay-traffic-again.html

- Andreas

--
"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
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