[tor-relays] different torrc and fingerprint when rebooted

2014-07-07 Thread Kali Tor
Hi all, When I installed tor for the first on an Ubuntu machine, ran it when logged in as normal user "tor" using the /etc/tor/torrc. However today I had to reboot the node and when it came back ps showed that it was using a different torrc /usr/sbin/tor --defaults-torrc /usr/share/tor/tor-servi

Re: [tor-relays] different torrc and fingerprint when rebooted

2014-07-07 Thread Kali Tor
>From what I read, I should be OK if I copy over the directory structure of >/home/tor/.tor to /var/lib/tor Can someone confirm? -kali- > On Monday, July 7, 2014 5:30 PM, Kali Tor wrote: > > Hi all, > > When I installed tor for the first on an Ubuntu machine, ran it when logged > in > as

[tor-relays] CPU usage

2014-07-07 Thread kingqueen
Hi, I'm running a Tor relay on a low cost dedicated server. The tor relay is named kingqueen and it's running on an Intel Atom N2700 dual core hyperthreaded CPU with 2gb of memory, in a data centre with a symmetric 100mbps connection. I have found as time goes on and usage of my relay increases

Re: [tor-relays] CPU usage

2014-07-07 Thread Julien ROBIN
Hi, In effect this CPU usage is quite normal : a Tor Relay use a lot of CPU, proportionally with amount of data passing trough the relay. With an Intel Atom D510 I was above 40 Mbps, while CPU was giving everything. The problem with Tor is the "single-thread working" for encryption/relaying, so

Re: [tor-relays] CPU usage

2014-07-07 Thread I
Julien, That is very useful and well explained. Thank you. Robert > > The problem with Tor is the "single-thread working" for > encryption/relaying, so if you have a second CPU core available, may be > you can open a second Tor instance in order to use the second core > capacity. > > In fact,

Re: [tor-relays] CPU usage

2014-07-07 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:31:02 +0100 kingqueen wrote: > Hi, I'm running a Tor relay on a low cost dedicated server. > > The tor relay is named kingqueen and it's running on an Intel Atom N2700 dual > core hyperthreaded CPU with 2gb of memory, in a data centre with a symmetric > 100mbps connectio