Re: How to Run High Capacity Tor Relays

2010-09-01 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
On 09/01/2010 02:28 PM, John Case wrote: > >> Also, afaik, zero people in the wild are actively running Tor with any >> crypto accelerator. May be a very painful process... I'm not really >> interested in documenting it unless its proven to scale by actual use. >> I want this document to end up wi

Re: How to Run High Capacity Tor Relays

2010-09-01 Thread coderman
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:28 PM, John Case wrote: >... > I really do think some subset of that discussion should be included in your > "lore", at the very least the parts pertaining to the built-in crypto > acceleration included in recent sparc CPUs, which appear to be the only > non-painful way to

Re: How to Run High Capacity Tor Relays

2010-09-01 Thread John Case
Also, afaik, zero people in the wild are actively running Tor with any crypto accelerator. May be a very painful process... I'm not really interested in documenting it unless its proven to scale by actual use. I want this document to end up with tested and reproduced results only. You know, Scie

Re: How to Run High Capacity Tor Relays

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Perry
I should have said this in my first post, but I believe that all subsequent replies should go to tor-relays. This should be the last post discussing technical details of relay operation on or-talk. Thus spake coderman (coder...@gmail.com): > > net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 1200 > > ^- who uses

Re: How to Run High Capacity Tor Relays

2010-08-24 Thread coderman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Mike Perry wrote: > ... > # Set the hard limit of open file descriptors really high. > # Tor will also potentially run out of ports. > ulimit -SHn 65000 typically in /etc/security/limits.conf. i like to append: * softnofile 4096 *

How to Run High Capacity Tor Relays

2010-08-24 Thread Mike Perry
After talking to Moritz and Olaf privately and asking them about their nodes, and after running some experiments with some high capacity relays, I've begun to realize that running a fast Tor relay is a pretty black art, with a lot of ad-hoc practice. Only a few people know how to do it, and if you