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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2010-09-28 14:36:28 -0400 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2010-09-28 14:42:21 -0400 |
| commit | 73d93c033d3f4b9c95e8f3a5cc7e4a255d523b84 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a6ef543d04d0153134d973977b0e5bfce80425d /doc/tor.1.txt | |
| parent | c612ddee17c2f6e70fde9f0bdd7116516f384ae8 (diff) | |
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Autodetect the number of CPUs when possible if NumCPUs==0
This is needed for IOCP, since telling the IOCP backend about all
your CPUs is a good idea. It'll also come in handy with asn's
multithreaded crypto stuff, and for people who run servers without
reading the manual.
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diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt index e9ef55166c..e670bdb6b7 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -860,7 +860,9 @@ is non-zero): characters inclusive, and must contain only the characters [a-zA-Z0-9]. **NumCPUs** __num__:: - How many processes to use at once for decrypting onionskins. (Default: 1) + How many processes to use at once for decrypting onionskins and other + parallelizable operations. If this is set to 0, Tor will try to detect + how many CPUs you have, defaulting to 1 if it can't tell. (Default: 0) **ORPort** __PORT__:: Advertise this port to listen for connections from Tor clients and servers. |