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Re: init.d script for multi instance TOR servers



Olaf Selke wrote:
On 06.09.2010 19:25, Moritz Bartl wrote:
On 06.09.2010 18:07, Olaf Selke wrote:
depending on your tcp timeout parameters you need a lot of local ports.
Did you verify the number of Tor tcp sessions isn't limited by
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range?
Yes.

I'm clueless. Do you want me to shut down all four blutmagie exits for a
couple of days and wait if other exits get more traffic?

If the idea is to run some experiments, I have a proposal that perhaps
would have less adverse impact on the Tor network -- and hoperfully
still yield useful data ...

I believe torservers (Moritz's nodes) are runnning slighly less than 3/4 of what he believes their capacity should be. And I think he is running four instances of roughtly equal capacity. What if Moritz -- as an experiment -- converted one of his four nodes to a non-exit node. If his total traffic is roughly unchanged from what it is now, then I
believe that would indicate (relative) excess exit capacity is not the
problem.  If his total traffic increases significantly, then perhaps
further investigation is warranted.  Is that worth a try?

Cheers,
Jim