[tor-relays] Can bridge run in tiny VPS

[Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)]

I've been running a Tor Relay doing 15Mbit/s on chvps.com with 128MB of ram.

Plenty of kernel messages saying "Hey man, put some more RAM" but i just
ignored them, added "file based" a +256mb of swap, and the machine has
been running fine for some more than 1 month.

This doesn't means it's the perfect environment.

Fabio

On 2/14/12 2:42 AM, tor-relays at nickcoleman.org wrote:
> 
> After reading on Hacker News about Tor's request for bridges for Syria
> and Iran,  I thought perhaps I could use my el-cheapo VPS for this.
> I use it to run an anonymous forwarding proxy for my own use.  It gets
> very little use, so I can do without the proxy for a few months.  
> 
> Mem is limited to 128MB, with bursts to 256MB.
> 
> Bandwidth is 500GB up and down per month.   Tor can have half of this
> (note the up *and* down).
> 
> The caveat is that, because it is a dirt cheap VPS, I don't get a
> warning about any violation of the TOS.  If I go outside the
> guidelines, they cancel my account.  So I need to be fairly certain,
> or somehow limit Tor, that its memory use in normal circumstances
> will not exceed ~100MB.
> 
> Is it feasible to run a bridge within these limits?  If so, any
> suggestions on config options welcome.
> 
> thanks,
> Nick
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