[tor-relays] [tor-dev] prop224: HSDir caches question with OOM

Tim Wilson-Brown - teor teor2345 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 12:24:53 UTC 2016


> On 18 Apr 2016, at 20:18, George Kadianakis <desnacked at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> PS: We could also in theory imagine writing those descriptors on disk, and only
>   caching the ones that we have received requests for lately. This way we
>   would not utilize our RAM that much…

Hmm, there is a disk DoS risk here, particularly for relays with smaller disks.

Tim

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