[tor-relays] Tor crashes frequently on fast relay

[Random Tor Node Operator]

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On 09/11/2013 12:34 PM, Stephan wrote:
> 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.
> 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.
> 
> I reconfigured monit not to restart tor until at least three
> consecutive TCP checks failed. Now I still get the warnings for
> failed checks from time to time (maybe under high load?) but tor
> seems to run stable.

Thanks, that is probably the cause of the restarts.
Could you post the corresponding line(s) in your monitrc?
Mine currently still looks like this:

if failed host 127.0.0.1 port 9001 then restart


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