On 08/09/2007, Gwern Branwen gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
On 0, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com scribbled:
As far as speed goes if you're using TOR SSL is the least of your speed
worries.
Yes, that's definitely true. Every little bit helps though, and if you are running a server, you actually get really good browsing speed - subjectively, I felt like my Tor browsing no more than halved (or less on a good day!) the speed when I was running a server. I still don't know whether this is because it cut out a hop (since the server was now on the local machine) or because my traffic was somehow being favored.
Interesting - if anything, I've noticed a performance degradation from running Tor as a server.
Is it possible you upgraded to one of the lastest versions of Tor at the same time you started running a server? The latest versions include improved load balancing which should make Tor much faster. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Sep-2007/msg00005.html
There is a proposal for cutting out a node from the circuit for those running non-exit servers. I don't think it's been implemented, but you can read about it here: http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/Jun-2007/msg00059.html http://tor.eff.org/svn/trunk/doc/spec/proposals/116-two-hop-paths-from-guard...