TOR slowing down other network services

Sat Mar 8 19:53:02 UTC 2008

Rochester TOR Admin schrieb:
> A few other environment factors:
>  - my firwall is a pretty old machine with a very slow NIC
>  - my tor server NIC is very cheap [<$10]
> 
> Could anyone give me some insight about what they think might be going on?

I'm not sure... what's a "pretty old machine"? I mean, Tor uses quite
quite a lot of crypto-stuff, which is expensive. Maybe the CPU is
overcomitted.

Have you checked the load of your system? at-sar might give you some
insight.

> Thanks in advance...

Cheers, Alex.

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