[tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 61, Issue 43

[stealth at nym.mixmin.net]

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On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 20:21:45 +0000, you wrote:
>
> > On 28 Feb 2016, at 21:17, stealth at nym.mixmin.net wrote:
> >
> > > Is your OpenSSL compiled optimised for your processor and for the encryption that Tor uses?
> > >
> >
> > I am using the OpenSSL that was compiled for my version of
> > Mixmaster as I am running a middle remailer on the same VPS. It is
> > OpenSSL: 1.0.1e
>
> Does Tor log a message when it starts recommending an optimised version of OpenSSL?
>
There are no references in my notices.log and my .log file is
empty. I will temporarily change my log level to debug and see what
it shows.

> > > How much RAM does your VPS have?
> > 512KB
>
> This is likely to be your issue. 512 MB is not enough for a large relay.
> Tor will limit its memory and connections to stay under about 3/4 of the memory you have.
> Try 1GB.
>
> Tim
Thanks for advice. Unfortunately upgrading to 1gb is not an option
for me. Right now it appears that Tor is not using anywhere near
what is available in memory as evidenced by my top command.

top - 12:49:36 up 5 days, 20:32,  2 users,  load average: 0.05,
0.09, 0.08
Tasks:  70 total,   1 running,  69 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  1.3 us,  0.5 sy,  0.0 ni, 98.2 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0
si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem:    524288 total,   198400 used,   325888 free,        0
buffers
KiB Swap:   524288 total,        0 used,   524288 free,    37620
cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S  %CPU %MEM    TIME+
COMMAND
 2535 debian-t  20   0 99116  69m 2980 S   3.3 13.5 125:37.86 tor
 2422 root      20   0  131m 5108 1080 S   0.3  1.0   5:04.66
fail2ban-server
16014 debian-t  20   0  107m  22m 2516 S   0.3  4.5   6:21.65 arm
>
> Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)
>
No response necessary. Thanks for your feedback Tim.

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