Memory use

[Jeffrey W. Baker]

On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 11:45 -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 03:04:49PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> > are you running 0.0.9.x or 0.1.0.x 
> > 
> > Don't know how if this influences memory
> 
> I believe we have some sort of memory bloat in 0.1.0.8-rc currently.
> 
> moria2 (one of the dirservers) is running on my shiny new 64 bit opteron,
> and it's running at about 10% cpu pushing 900 kB/s.
> 
> But its memory footprint has been steadily growing.
> 
> I tried running it inside valgrind (which is actually possible on this
> opteron -- wow), but valgrind indicated that there were no leaks.

There are clearly memory leaks of some kind.  In 1.0.8-rc1, tor has
exhausted all memory (192MB) and some swap (37MB) on one of my nodes,
after being up for only 49 hours.

I think I may just reboot my nodes daily.

-jwb