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On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 20:21:45 +0000, you wrote:

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On 28 Feb 2016, at 21:17, stealth@nym.mixmin.net wrote:

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Is your OpenSSL compiled optimised for your processor and for the encryption that Tor uses?

I am using the OpenSSL that was compiled for my version of Mixmaster as I am running a middle remailer on the same VPS. It is OpenSSL: 1.0.1e

Does Tor log a message when it starts recommending an optimised version of OpenSSL?

There are no references in my notices.log and my .log file is empty. I will temporarily change my log level to debug and see what it shows.

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How much RAM does your VPS have?

512KB

This is likely to be your issue. 512 MB is not enough for a large relay. Tor will limit its memory and connections to stay under about 3/4 of the memory you have. Try 1GB.

Tim

Thanks for advice. Unfortunately upgrading to 1gb is not an option for me. Right now it appears that Tor is not using anywhere near what is available in memory as evidenced by my top command.

top - 12:49:36 up 5 days, 20:32, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.09, 0.08 Tasks: 70 total, 1 running, 69 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 1.3 us, 0.5 sy, 0.0 ni, 98.2 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 524288 total, 198400 used, 325888 free, 0 buffers KiB Swap: 524288 total, 0 used, 524288 free, 37620 cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2535 debian-t 20 0 99116 69m 2980 S 3.3 13.5 125:37.86 tor 2422 root 20 0 131m 5108 1080 S 0.3 1.0 5:04.66 fail2ban-server 16014 debian-t 20 0 107m 22m 2516 S 0.3 4.5 6:21.65 arm

Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)

No response necessary. Thanks for your feedback Tim.