[tor-relays] Undiagnosable Crashes in Relays

[skyhighatrist]

Hmmm. "NationalCrimeAgency" and "SnowCrash" fell over again sometime
last night it would appear. I have now enabled debug logging on all
hosts, and updated them to the latest available (in the repositories
those hosts are using) version of Tor.

I also note that the issue others have mentioned (namely in the
"CircuitStorm" issue in the tracker) that the relay which also runs a HS
has been coming under inredibly high load - CPU maxed out at 100%. Given
my HS is rarely used, such load is ... odd. Other relay and HS operators
I have privately spoken with have mentioned their HS nodes have also
locked up at 100% recently.

I'll provide debug logs if this happens again post-updates being
applied, which might help with getting to the bottom of this mess.

.d

On 26/03/15 01:38, teor wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:21:50 +0800
>> From: Vincent Yu <v at v-yu.com>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 4:26 PM, skyhighatrist <skyhighatrist at tfwno.gf>
>> wrote:
>>> I am wondering if anyone has had their relay randomly crash in the
>>> past
>>> week or so. Three of mine (I run 6, nonexits) have fallen over. One of
>>> them ~5 days ago, one of them ~4 days ago, and one of them earlier
>>> today
>>> .
>>
>> This also happened to my two relays about three weeks ago. They are:
>>
>> https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/C309A31AD772FFDD0805C9FECB6D4748A7CBF684
>> https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/18BE989663CF3351F73D33C672BB1C985E0EA5D0
>>
>> They are both middle/guard relays (about 200 Mbps each) on the 0.2.6
>> branch and are on the same dedicated server. They went down at
>> different times, and as far as I can remember, there was nothing
>> notable in the Tor and system logs. No issues prior to this over the
>> past 12 months. I haven't had time to investigate this.
>>
> 
> This also happened to my EC2 relay a few weeks ago, but I never had time to investigate.
> It's quite possible it was a bad nightly tor version, or some sort of misconfiguration on my end, but the timing matches.
> I didn't manage to get it to come back up in the limited time I had to try and fix it.
> 
> https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/425E55A8FA145ACFC01FA58CD4E6F46DD7762AAB
> (No record, it's been down for a while.)
> 
> teor
> 
> teor2345 at gmail dot com
> pgp 0xABFED1AC
> https://gist.github.com/teor2345/d033b8ce0a99adbc89c5
> 
> teor at blah dot im
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