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Moritz Bartl:
On 02/17/2015 06:29 PM, Nusenu wrote:
Arzhel and Moritz, could you comment on whether you prefer to manually create/specify tor instances (via 'proc_instances') as you do here [1], or whether you would make use of an instance auto configuration (two instances per IP - see example here [2])?
Automate away please!! :-)
I somehow expected it - great (this is basically done ;)
In my ideal world, someone would write a "wizard" as wrapper around the ansible stuff (or whatever really), so people who run it can either specify attributes in a clear CLI language that feels "more native" to the domain, or answer questions asked by the wizard. The knowledge spectrum is "Moritz wants to use this", and "Uh. I have zero knowledge of computers, but I want to run a Tor relay. I have this cheap $5 VPS, please turn it into something useful. I don't know if it should be a bridge, or a relay. I don't even really want to know.".
Understood.
In practice and for simplicity, I wouldn't mind if you completely ignore the "make processes handle as much traffic as possible". The default should be "as automated as possible, even if suboptimal".
Agreed :) I'm wondering if simply (blindly) running two tor processes per available IP is any worse than anything else from a pure "lets push as much traffic as we can" (on a host not on a tor process level).
As long as you expose the "expert options for tuning", that's totally fine with me. :-)
Does this help?
Thanks for your answer.