[or-cvs] it"d be nice for somebody to resolve the dmalloc question.

arma at seul.org arma at seul.org
Fri Sep 30 01:03:23 UTC 2005


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	volunteer.html 
Log Message:
it'd be nice for somebody to resolve the dmalloc question.


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 <li>Tor 0.1.1.x includes support for hardware crypto accelerators via
 OpenSSL. Nobody has ever tested it, though. Does somebody want to get
 a card and let us know how it goes?</li>
+<li>Long ago, we added dmalloc support to Tor, to track leaks. But we
+never quite got it working. Is dmalloc unfit for the job? Look at the
+--with-dmalloc configure option and go from there.</li>
 <li>Because Tor servers need to store-and-forward each cell they handle,
 high-bandwidth Tor servers end up using dozens of megabytes of memory
 just for buffers. We need better heuristics for when to shrink/expand



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