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install shallot, solve dependencies problem to install shallot, use shallot as the background process with Tmux to make an onion domain, install and use cpulimit to limit the processor usage of shallot

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How To Install Shallot and Make Onion Domains + Limit Shallot CPU Usage

install shallot, solve dependencies problem to install shallot, use shallot as the background process with Tmux to make an onion domain, install and use cpulimit to limit the processor usage of shallot

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How to install Shallot and make Onion domains + limit shallot

CPU usage

I use Debian 8 jessie and to make onion domains I had to install


Shallot.

I had to use wget command to download it from the Github:

wget https://github.com/katmagic/Shallot/archive/master.zip

if you get problem with the uknown certificate, use this command:

wget --no-check-certificate
https://github.com/katmagic/Shallot/archive/master.zip

after download, type ls-la and you will see master.zip

unzip it: unzip master.zip

you will see now Shallot-master folder.

Now you need to configure it and install it:

cd Shallot-master

./configure

make

when you try to cinfigure it, if you have fresh debian, you will get the
dependencies problem, you must install additional packages in oder to
install Shallot. I tried:

sudo apt-get install make autoconf automake libtool gcc

but again I had to install: sudo apt-get install build-essential

Then I got the problem with C compiler and I tried: sudo apt-get
install libcurl4-openssl-dev

for some people this worked, but for me, this solved my problem:

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

Now the Shallot worked, you can test it with:

cd Shallot-master #if you are not already inside of that folder


./shallot ^test

Don't forget that you need very good hardware to chose many letters,
if you chose 4 letters like "test", you get the result in 2 seconds, if you
chose 6 letters, you must wait 30 minutes, for 7 letters, your computer
will have to work 1 day (my computer worked 2 days).

You can decide to save the result from the shallot in a file called
domain1, you should type like this (ohmygod is 7 letters):

./shallot ^ohmygod > domain1

But again, there is a problem. Shallot will take 100% of your CPU and
you will get very slow laptop/PC/server, you will not be able to use it.
Therefore, I decided to limit the shallot process, how much CPU it can
use. Beside it, to log out from the terminal session, I decided to install
tmux and start shallot inside of tmux, in that way, shallot run in the
background, even after I closed the terminal session on my server. I
limited CPU usage to 30% and I chose 7 letters from my onion domain
and I waited 2 days that Shallot finish the task.

sudo apt-get install tmux

tmux #to start tmux session

./shallot ^ohmygod > domain1

go out from the tmux with the command:

ctrl+b d #or ctrl+b :detach

sudo apt-get install cpulimit

top command will list all processes and you can use the shallot ID to
limit CPU, but you can also use the name of the process shallot:

top #to list all processes and see the ID of shallot, in my case the
shallot process ID was 19439

ctrl+c #to go out from the top command

cpulimit -p 19439 -l 30

or if you don't want to find out ID, just use the name of the process you
want to limit
cpulimit -e shallot -l 30

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