There is something really strange going on indeed. What I noticed is an increase of circuits and my device running out of memory until it stopped working so I had to reboot it on 31. Jan. Then again the memory usage increased until it leveled out at a rather unusual, high usage. The actual bandwidth usage is not unusual though (always around 2Mbps on my relay).
Attached a screenshot of my memory usage the last few days (I hope attachments do work here; it's in fact Tor using that memory as could be checked with ps and htop).
Heartbeat messages of the log are:
Jan 31 10:57:56.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 6:00 hours, with 447 circuits open. I've sent 2.66 GB and received 2.65 GB. Jan 31 16:57:56.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 12:00 hours, with 19764 circuits open. I've sent 9.59 GB and received 9.54 GB. Jan 31 22:57:56.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 18:00 hours, with 54178 circuits open. I've sent 12.36 GB and received 12.30 GB. Feb 01 04:57:56.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 23:50 hours, with 79333 circuits open. I've sent 14.89 GB and received 14.81 GB. Feb 01 10:57:56.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 1 day 5:50 hours, with 110815 circuits open. I've sent 19.55 GB and received 19.45 GB. Feb 01 16:57:56.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 1 day 11:50 hours, with 141724 circuits open. I've sent 24.03 GB and received 23.90 GB. Feb 01 22:57:56.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 1 day 17:50 hours, with 12829 circuits open. I've sent 29.96 GB and received 29.75 GB.
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, 1. February 2019 23:50, Roman Mamedov rm@romanrm.net wrote:
Hello,
There seems to be an issue with Tor's memory usage. Earlier today, with Tor 3.5.7 and 1.5 GB of RAM running two Tor processes, the machine got 430 MB into swap, slowing down to a crawl from iowait on accessing the swapped out memory. Typically 1.5 GB is more than enough for these. "VIRT" in top was ~1GB each, and "RES" was ~512MB each. Which is weird because that doesn't add up to exhausting the 1.5 GB, and there are no other heavy processes on the machine running. I rebooted it without further investigation.
And right now on another machine running 2.9.16 I see:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 22432 debian-+ 30 10 5806816 5.157g 10464 R 39.5 33.1 39464:19 tor
But not sure if it just accumulated 5.1GB of RAM slowly over time, or shot up recently.
Feb 01 17:00:49.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 82 days 23:59 hours, with 70705 circuits open. I've sent 66622.45 GB and received 65906.91 GB. Feb 01 17:00:49.000 [notice] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 11361/11361 TAP, 239752/239752 NTor. Feb 01 17:00:49.000 [notice] Since startup, we have initiated 0 v1 connections, 0 v2 connections, 10 v3 connections, and 3385644 v4 connections; and received 14 v1 connections, 78592 v2 connections, 822108 v3 connections, and 8779474 v4 connections. Feb 01 17:00:49.000 [notice] DoS mitigation since startup: 2899572 circuits rejected, 121 marked addresses. 561 connections closed. 21956 single hop clients refused. Feb 01 17:08:20.000 [warn] connection_edge_process_relay_cell (at origin) failed.
With respect, Roman
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