Re: TOR slowing down other network services

2008-03-09 Thread Csaba Kiraly
Some more info about your link would help in the diagnosis. If you are on ADSL, as I suppose you are, and available bandwidth is quite asymmetric, you need most of your uplink BW to send the TCP acknowledgements for the 4mbps downlink traffic. If your download also needs data upload, e.g. for some

Re: TOR slowing down other network services

2008-03-09 Thread Rochester TOR Admin
Thanks for the replies. I'm not sure... what's a pretty old machine? The server is running an old Athlon XP and my firewall is a dual Pentium Pro. Tor is using 2% of my CPU and 9% of my memory out of 384mb, 35mb are swapped. Some more info about your link would help in the diagnosis. If you

Re: TOR slowing down other network services

2008-03-08 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Rochester TOR Admin schrieb: A few other environment factors: - my firwall is a pretty old machine with a very slow NIC - my tor server NIC is very cheap [$10] Could anyone give me some insight about what they think might be going on? I'm not sure... what's a pretty old machine? I mean,

Re: TOR slowing down other network services

2008-03-08 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Oh, and memory might be an issue too. If your machine starts paging and swapping it'll suffer from it. at-sar helps there too. Alex. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature