I wanted to share my observations and follow-up with two questions.
I have rotated a relay between BuyVM’s 8GB 2 core “slice” running Windows Server 2016, Windows 2016 with 16GB i5 at the house and presently under Windows 10 with an 8 core i7-9700K.
What I’m seeing in all cases is the connection load to other systems is around 3000.
How normal a load is this after three weeks?
The BuyVM solution is up and marked as stable and has picked up guard a few times. It showed overloaded last night with CPU for the process at roughly 30%.
Currently, there are 2800 connections with Tor taking around 20% CPU. That’s with two cores.
The Windows 10 machine has a dedicated NIC and is also a Plex server so it gets a workout.
Tor is at 2.7% CPU and 257MB of RAM. At the moment it is pushing ~600 B/sec each way but I’ve seen it well into the 700s.
The gateway/router from the ISP is AT&T’s standard Nokia BGW320-505 running at around 2450 Mbps with 4156 out of 8192 possible in the gateway’s NAT table.
I don’t want to climb to the top with connections so I can have some headway for other devices.
I’m just wondering how normal my situation looks compared to other platforms and the OP after three weeks.
My second question is about the firewall documentation that is open and refers to @gus here in the forum.
Is that assigned or is it up for grabs?
I can knock it out if needed after I figure out how that system works.