[tor-relays] Memory Problems with tor releay

[Florentin Rochet]

Le 22/05/17 à 20:29, tor-relay.dirk at o.banes.ch a écrit :
> Dear all,
>
> we are operating two exit nodes with each two tor processes out of
> Switzerland.
> The nodes worked quite stable until about 2-3 weeks ago.
>
> Since then we experience frequent disruptions (Up to several times a
> day). This is caused by a significant rise in memory consumption
> by the tor processes and ends with a tor process being killed by the
> Linux Kernel:
>
> May 22 00:30:43 tor2 kernel: [2257156.134100] Killed process 40964 (tor)
> total-vm:448088kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB
>
> The systems are physical machines with Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS with 4 GB of
> memory. This was sufficient the last 2 years.
>
> For more details a sample of this behavior is documented in a Ticket [1].
> Tor project team is researching but until now no hints lead to an
> improvement.
>
> Due to a tweet last week [2] and the follow up discussion with another
> operator I became suspicious that is not just
> just us having a problem rather it cloud be more common.
>
> Therefore here the question to you all - do you experience some strange
> behavior like described in the ticket as well ?
>
> Please let me know if so.
Hello!

I have the same issue with tor-0.2.9.10 (last stable on jessie). The 
process got killed 6 times since May 14 .. and a 7th just right now.


>
> If not - maybe it is just an unfortunate coincidence and we will end up
> make a clean install of both server hoping the problem will go away.
>
>
> best regards
>
> Dirk
>
>
> [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22255
>
> [2]https://twitter.com/FrennVunDerEnn/status/864583496072876034
>
>
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