[tor-relays] "Removed 1565259696 bytes by killing 1 circuits"

Jacki M jackiam2003 at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 20 23:36:41 UTC 2017


What version of Tor is the relay running and what is the total available memory available to  the relay?

> On Oct 20, 2017, at 4:27 PM, tor <tor at anondroid.com> wrote:
> 
> In a relay's logs:
> 
> Oct 20 10:31:47 XXXXX Tor[YYYY]: We're low on memory.  Killing circuits with over-long queues. (This behavior is controlled by MaxMemInQueues.)
> Oct 20 10:32:11 XXXXX Tor[YYYY]: Removed 1565259696 bytes by killing 1 circuits; 40008 circuits remain alive. Also killed 0 non-linked directory connections.
> 
> Tor removed ~ 1565 MB by killing 1 circuit? Seems like that can't be right?
> 
> Earlier in the log I see "Based on detected system memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 1500 MB." So either it's dumping the entire queue here, or the output is misleading. Or perhaps I don't understand how it works.
> 
> It doesn't seem to be impactful; I'm just curious what's going on.
> 
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