Re: [tor-relays] Which OS gives usually the best performance for a relay?

2016-09-07 Thread Kenneth Freeman
On 09/07/2016 10:34 AM, George wrote: > On 09/07/16 11:54, Farid Joubbi wrote: >> I had not thought of the diversity that way. > > There's a host of diversity issues with Tor to cover, but I tend to > think OS diversity is one of the more critical. With apologies to Akira Kurosawa, I think of t

Re: [tor-relays] Which OS gives usually the best performance for a relay?

2016-09-07 Thread nusenu
George: > On 09/07/16 11:54, Farid Joubbi wrote: >> I had not thought of the diversity that way. > > There's a host of diversity issues with Tor to cover, but I tend to > think OS diversity is one of the more critical. > > These are some reports we generate at TDP: > > https://torbsd.github.io/d

Re: [tor-relays] Which OS gives usually the best performance for a relay?

2016-09-07 Thread George
On 09/07/16 11:54, Farid Joubbi wrote: > I had not thought of the diversity that way. There's a host of diversity issues with Tor to cover, but I tend to think OS diversity is one of the more critical. These are some reports we generate at TDP: https://torbsd.github.io/dirty-stats.html > > Tha

Re: [tor-relays] Which OS gives usually the best performance for a relay?

2016-09-07 Thread Farid Joubbi
any good answers since my question is kind of broad and unspecific. From: tor-relays on behalf of jensm1 Sent: 07 September 2016 13:08 To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Which OS gives usually the best performance for a relay? Hi

Re: [tor-relays] Which OS gives usually the best performance for a relay?

2016-09-07 Thread jensm1
Hi! All modern Operating Systems should be up to the task of running a Tor relay, if configured right. The question about which one will work best has probably no general answer, but will depend on the hardware (and software) configuration used, the quality of the drivers for your specific hardwa

[tor-relays] Which OS gives usually the best performance for a relay?

2016-09-06 Thread Farid Joubbi
Hello, I am thinking of setting up a new relay. I know that the hardware in the server is going to be the bottleneck, not my Internet connection. I have a problem deciding on which OS to use for the relay. A few years ago when I had a similar relay going, I had it running on OpenBSD first.