[tor-relays] minimum ram

Eduard nastase.eduard at gmail.com
Sat Oct 19 15:15:31 UTC 2013


I could say that this is true. I run a relay on my desktop, and I see that after 5-7h the ram ussage increase. Even on a 16GB system, the increase is detectable.


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Moritz Bartl <moritz at torservers.net> wrote:

>On 2013-10-19 03:50, I wrote:
>> Is there any utility in the very cheap VPSs with 128mb of ram?
>
>I did some testing quite a while ago and found that 256MB was the
>minimum amount of RAM for a relay. It works for some time with
>128MB, but it then runs out of memory, and it is not very good
>to have it restart all the time.
>
>I say "was" because currently, with more than 3 million clients
>in the network, a relay might even run out of memory with 256MB
>RAM. I don't have any current data on that though.
>
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>Moritz Bartl
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