Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

Elias via tor-relays tor-relays@lists.torproject.org wrote:

This is actually not a "real" root server, it's a KVM server (of course). The CPU is an AMD EPYC 7702 with 2 dedicated cores per server@3,35GHz.

Since this is virtualization, make sure that features such as AES acceleration are active.

The number of cores is not really relevant since Tor is not multi-threaded. The EPYC 7702 can boost up to 3.35 GHz, check that it reaches that under load.

Also since you have 2 cores, you can run two instances of Tor.

I chose this server because the bandwith is unmetered and it's a guaranteed 1GHz link.

I assume you mean 1 Gbit/s.