On Monday, November 4th, 2024 at 04:33, Keifer Bly keifer.bly@gmail.com wrote:
So I am wondering, is a Raspberry Pi 4 a recommended device to run a tor relay on? In terms of traffic load, etc? Thanks.
It's not powerful, but it certainly works, and if you have one around you can set it up and leave it alone until the next Tor release. I put vnstat (to measure network traffic) on mine a few months ago, and this is what it shows. I don't know why the numbers vary, but the Pi quietly moves one or two gigs of traffic a day without complaining.
$ vnstat -m --iface wlan0
wlan0 / monthly
month rx | tx | total | avg. rate ------------------------+-------------+-------------+--------------- 2024-04 416.35 GiB | 428.03 GiB | 844.38 GiB | 2.80 Mbit/s 2024-05 808.80 GiB | 842.77 GiB | 1.61 TiB | 5.30 Mbit/s 2024-06 426.15 GiB | 429.83 GiB | 855.98 GiB | 2.84 Mbit/s 2024-07 354.59 GiB | 352.77 GiB | 707.36 GiB | 2.27 Mbit/s 2024-08 149.03 GiB | 150.89 GiB | 299.92 GiB | 961.88 kbit/s 2024-09 160.28 GiB | 160.25 GiB | 320.53 GiB | 1.06 Mbit/s 2024-10 166.87 GiB | 160.55 GiB | 327.42 GiB | 1.05 Mbit/s 2024-11 25.78 GiB | 23.95 GiB | 49.73 GiB | 1.24 Mbit/s ------------------------+-------------+-------------+--------------- estimated 193.68 GiB | 179.91 GiB | 373.59 GiB |
Bill
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