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 ;-) ________________________________________ From: tor-relays <tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org> on behalf of Andreas Krey <a.k...@gmx.de> Sent: 21 March 2017 20:53 To: tor-relays@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 _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
