<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On 15 Dec 2014, at 7:42, Seth <<a href="mailto:list@sysfu.com">list@sysfu.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 11:17:54 -0800, Libertas <<a href="mailto:libertas@mykolab.com">libertas@mykolab.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>It turns out my new exit node is an even better example than it was when</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I posted it two days ago. Compare its measured and consensus bandwidths</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>with its actual bandwidth:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/CDAB3AE06A8C9C6BF817B3B0F1877A4B91465699">https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/CDAB3AE06A8C9C6BF817B3B0F1877A4B91465699</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>It's running on a pretty fast 100 Mbps uplink on a dedicated server with</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>hardware that should be serious overkill.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>So if the 'Advertised Bandwidth' value on that page of 1.64MB/s = 'Consensus Bandwidth' then your node is pushing 13.12Mpbs or only 13% of available theoretical bandwidth.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Mine is pushing 1.49MB/s or 11.92Mpbs. <a href="https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/E1E1059D8C41FC48B823C6F09348EA89C4D4C9D4">https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/E1E1059D8C41FC48B823C6F09348EA89C4D4C9D4</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Not sure what the max actual bandwidth of the standard Vultr VPS is, I should run some iperf tests to find out.</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>tor can often be single-process, single-CPU compute bound, as its cryptography and other computation is incompletely parallelised.<div><br></div><div>Have you checked the CPU on the main tor process?</div><div>(It will spawn a crypto process for each CPU. Don't check those!)</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">teor<br>pgp 0xABFED1AC<br><a href="hkp://pgp.mit.edu/">hkp://pgp.mit.edu/</a></span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://gist.github.com/teor2345/d033b8ce0a99adbc89c5">https://gist.github.com/teor2345/d033b8ce0a99adbc89c5</a><br><a href="http://0bin.net/paste/Mu92kPyphK0bqmbA#Zvt3gzMrSCAwDN6GKsUk7Q8G-eG+Y+BLpe7wtmU66Mx" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">http://0bin.net/paste/Mu92kPyphK0bqmbA#Zvt3gzMrSCAwDN6GKsUk7Q8G-eG+Y+BLpe7wtmU66Mx</a></span></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>