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Running Tor with a 15MB memory limit
by Nathan Freitas 04 Dec '17

04 Dec '17

I am currently supporting the iCepa project, an effort to get Tor to run as a Network Extension VPN on iOS. https://github.com/iCepa/iCepa The good news is that, after a long time, we have the whole thing somewhat working. The bad news is that after browsing a few pages through Tor, the extension is shutdown due to going over the extremely tiny 15MB available heap. More on this at: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/73148 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension My question is, does anyone else have experience running Tor within some extreme memory limits? Any guidance on configuring torrc for this? Any thoughts on build flags or changes that might reduce memory usage? We have already identified that the new compression features available in recent versions of Tor consume more memory, and we may have to disable those for now, for instance. Thanks for any thoughts! +n

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