<div dir="ltr">Aha - makes sense, I'll just build it myself. Thanks for the quick response.<div><br></div><div>So - the new handshake in 0.2.4.x doesn't help with the ongoing issues? On that page I linked it was suggested it might...</div>

<div><br></div><div>Chris</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 October 2013 20:33, Roger Dingledine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arma@mit.edu" target="_blank">arma@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 08:26:52PM +0100, Chris Whittleston wrote:<br>
> So I just started running a non-exit relay on a Raspberry Pi, and have hit<br>
> a problem where it seems huge numbers of circuits are being created which<br>
> overwhelms the system and can cause tor to crash. I read here (<br>
> <a href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients" target="_blank">https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients</a>)<br>
> that upgrading to 0.2.4.x might help with this<br>
<br>
</div>No, 0.2.4.x means that you make things better for users, but alas it<br>
does not magically make your relay receive fewer circuit create requests.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
>, so I followed the<br>
> instructions here:<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian#development" target="_blank">https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian#development</a><br>
<br>
</div>Read the bold words on that page that start with "Raspbian is not Debian."<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> And ran apt-get update, apt-get upgrade to get the latest version which<br>
> turned out to be 0.2.4.11-alpha-1~wheezy+1<br>
><br>
> There seems to be a problem with this though as when the install finishes<br>
> (or when I try to restart tor), I get this error:<br>
><br>
> pi@torberrypi /etc/tor $ sudo /etc/init.d/tor restart<br>
> /etc/init.d/tor: line 111:  9701 Illegal instruction     $DAEMON<br>
> $VERIFY_ARGS > /dev/null<br>
> [FAIL] Checking if tor configuration is valid ... failed!<br>
> /etc/init.d/tor: line 111:  972<br>
> <a href="https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian#development4" target="_blank">https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian#development4</a> Illegal instruction<br>
> $DAEMON $VERIFY_ARGS 1>&2<br>
><br>
> Tor is not starting and I'm unsure how to proceed - help appreciated! :)<br>
<br>
</div>You might like<br>
<a href="http://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/242/how-to-run-tor-on-raspbian-on-the-raspberry-pi" target="_blank">http://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/242/how-to-run-tor-on-raspbian-on-the-raspberry-pi</a><br>
<br>
--Roger<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><b>Dr Chris Whittleston 栗主</b><br>Department of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW<br>Email: <a href="mailto:csw34@cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">csw34@cam.ac.uk</a><br>

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