[tor-relays] Tor crashes frequently on fast relay

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Wed Sep 11 10:37:51 UTC 2013


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:34:12PM +0200, Stephan wrote:
> On 11.09.2013 10:05, Random Tor Node Operator wrote:
> >Sep 10 08:59:40.000 [notice] Interrupt: we have stopped accepting new
> >connections, and will shut down in 30 seconds. Interrupt again to exit
> >now.
> 
> I'm just taking a wild guess here, because I had similar symptoms:
> that log message doesn't seem to be a crash but a regular shutdown.

Correct. Something told your Tor to turn off.

> In my case I use 'monit' to monitor my server and the running
> services - including tor. Once in a while the automated TCP check on
> either the OR-Port or the DIR-Port failed which resulted in monit
> stopping and starting tor.

Yow. That doesn't sound like what you wanted (nor does it sound good
for the Tor network).

Thanks,
--Roger



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