Tor takes too much RAM

Olaf Selke olaf.selke at blutmagie.de
Sat Dec 15 09:24:29 UTC 2007


Roger Dingledine wrote:

> If you're using Linux, and you're unhappy with the amount of ram and
> cpu your Tor server is using, try out Nick's suggestion here:
> 
> http://bugs.noreply.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=468&area=comments#1304
> 
> and let us know what you learn. :)

yes, it really helps. Using the OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c my tor's process
size stops growing at about 430 MB. With the standard libc malloc the
process grew until it finally crashed.

Olaf



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