Problems running TOR for an extended period
Jan Danielsson
jan.m.danielsson at gmail.com
Sun Jul 16 19:56:30 UTC 2006
Hello all,
[note: I'm posting this to NetBSD's pkgsrc-user mailing list, as well
as the TOR talk mailing list]
I'm trying to run tor v0.1.1.22 on NetBSD/amd64 3.0. I'm running it
as an exit node. It does seem to run pretty fine, but only for a while.
I noticed that it does consume *vast* amounts of RAM, and after a while
it has consumed so much that it starts eating off the swap, and finally
I get messages which state that TOR processes are being killed off for
eating up the remaining swap.
This is an except from "top" (yes, I am aware of that "top" isn't
optimal for memory related detective work).
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
1535 tor 2 0 38M 23M netio 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tor
1202 tor 2 0 38M 23M netio 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tor
709 tor 2 0 38M 23M netio 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tor
1823 tor 2 0 38M 23M netio 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tor
1126 tor 2 0 38M 22M netio 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tor
1069 tor 2 0 38M 22M netio 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tor
1716 tor 2 0 38M 22M netio 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tor
1688 tor 2 0 38M 22M netio 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tor
1198 tor 2 0 38M 22M netio 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tor
1150 tor 2 0 38M 22M netio 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tor
I'm not really sure how an application which relays TCP traffic
(albeit encrypting/decrypting it) can consume this amount of RAM. Is it
really normal?
What's worse... A few times NetBSD has hung, *completely* (requiring
hard reset), when TOR has consumed all memory. I have never has NetBSD
crash hard on me before as far as I can remember. Since I started
running TOR a few days ago, I have had several total crashes.
Is anyone else having problems with tor and memory consumption? On
NetBSD?
--
Kind regards,
Jan Danielsson
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