Re: Tor client performance

[andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:57:11AM +0200, olaf.selke@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote 1.2K bytes in 33 lines about:
: in order to verify this today at 11:50 GMT+2 I restored the old state
: before hardware upgrade by setting
: BandBandwidthRate 14000 KB on blutmagie[1,2] and
: BandBandwidthRate 100 KB on blutmagie[3,4].
: 
: This should overload two cores running blutmagie[1,2] processes leaving
: two cores idle and put blutmagie[3,4] almost out of service.
: 
: Let's wait and look at http://metrics.torproject.org/torperf-graphs.html

Ok.  A fine test indeed.  I've heard from a few Chinese citizens that
the GFW has ramped up blocking everything in preparation for the June 4
Tiananmen Square anniversary. 

Also, you did this on a weekend, which is typically less traffic for the
network overall. I suggest leaving it for a week and seeing what
happens.

-- 
Andrew Lewman
The Tor Project
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