[tor-relays] Question: RAM requirement for an exit relay

Olaf Grimm jeep665 at posteo.de
Sat Dec 12 19:37:22 UTC 2020


Hello!

I would like to activate a local DNS resolver with unbound at the exit
relays, but I am concerned about the RAM size with 1GB. On an example
machine I have 2GB RAM and the exit relay occupies 400MB at 22.9 MiB/s
according to the metrics.

Does anyone have experience with such values? My smaller exit relays
only have 1GB of RAM.

Well, there is still the problem that simply trying it out is not
possible. If I overrun the RAM and it comes to SWAP activities, then
already on a local machine almost no access was possible. With a VPS
this is a no-go.

Kind regards!
Olaf


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