Re: [tor-talk] Multiple CPU cores?

[Cannon <cannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/27/2016 02:18 PM, Watson Ladd wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 4:18 AM, Kristoffer Rath Hansen
> <kristoffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've over some time ran some different tor relays - and I really like the
>> Tor project. It really makes sense to me.
>>
>> Here is the problem I've ran into. On my exit node, speedybacon2500, I have
>> 2.5 Gbit/s interface and 8 CPU cores. Tor uses ~60 mbps and 1 CPU core. I
>> do also have a few other things running on the server, but I'd really like
>> to be able to take advantage of more CPU cores and more bandwidth.
> 
> So would everyone else. Sadly Tor is not fully multithreaded yet:
> there are longstanding plans but the work goes slowly.  There is an
> apparently abandoned project https://github.com/tvdw/gotor which was
> capable of solving some of the problems when it did run, but
> apparently there were issues.
> 
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So does this mean it is useless to run an exit on my 8 core system?

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