Quoth morphium <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 2007-12-26 19:45:54 +0100: > How to optimize tor to "use" more bandwith without increasing server load? > :)
That sounds like it's going to be rather problematic. The data rate that you can pass through a cryptographic system like the Tor network uses is going to be inherently limited by how fast you can do the crypto operations, which are fairly CPU-intensive. And the flow of circuit requests is going to be dependent on how much clients use short-lived versus long-lived connections on average; there isn't any way of which I know to say "prefer <nodes> for short-lived/long-lived circuits", not least because there isn't an obvious way for the client to pass an estimated connection lifetime to the proxy. So you may be out of luck except for constraining the Tor bandwidth or getting more processing power. You might want to look into hardware crypto accelerators; Tor supposedly can use those through the OpenSSL library, but I don't see references to it ever having been confirmed to work. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jun-2005/msg00252.html > Best regards, > Theodor 'morphium' Reppe ---> Drake Wilson
