(FWD) Problems with Tor in user-mode-linux

Giorgos Pallas gpall at ccf.auth.gr
Sun Jan 23 21:28:56 UTC 2005


Bernhard Wiedemann wrote:

>maybe there is no memory leak and for some reason tor needs 0.7MB per 
>connection for normal operation... unlikely.
>Unluckily I dont know enough about why and when tor forks and processes 
>stop... but for the curious I recorded some outputs of
>ps ax| perl -ne 'if(!/tor\.pid/){next} m/^\s*(\d+)/;print $1,"\n"; system 
>"grep ^Vm /proc/$1/status"'
>that can be found at http://lsmod.de/~bernhard/tor/
>
>Giorgos Pallas problem seems to be related to this.
>  
>
Perhaps, a TOR configuration parameter which would allow the admin to 
specify how much memory is TOR allowed to allocate would be useful. I 
just installed 0.0.9.3. Let's see how good it deals with memory...

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