Sheevaplug Review
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Hi,
I would like to share my experience running a Sheevaplug (Debian) as a middle relay at a home Internet uplink with a maximal upload bandwidth of 4 Mbps.
The Sheevaplug was dedicated to run Tor only, so the system load and traffic you see on the following graphs was exclusively generated by Tor.
http://imageshack.us/f/190/dailytrafficrxtxtotal.png/ http://imageshack.us/f/338/trafficday.png/ http://imageshack.us/f/838/connectionsweek.png/ http://imageshack.us/f/443/ppsday.png/ http://imageshack.us/f/824/memoryday.png/ http://imageshack.us/f/208/cpuday.png/ http://imageshack.us/f/269/loadday.png/
Occasionally the log showed the following warning: "[warn] Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests! Please consider using the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option or choosing a more restricted exit policy."
but otherwise it seamed to run fast enough to handle 4 Mbps of Tor traffic coming in and going out.
The Sheevaplug seams to have a heat problem when running 24/7 with steady load. My Sheevaplug unfortunately died (power supply). Many other report the same problem: http://chemicaloliver.net/electronics/sheevaplug-why-globalscale-suck/ http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=1734.0 https://newit.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=353.0
(it would be interessting to know if the dreamplug has a similar power supply issue) The OS was running on a pen drive.
I ordered a B3 to see if that one is better suited to run 24/7
- but has also a much higher price..