Problems running TOR for an extended period

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 09:56:30PM +0200, Jan Danielsson wrote:
>    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

http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#ServerOS

>    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?

On your operating system, yes.

If there exists a new version of NetBSD with a reentrant
gethostbyname_r(), let us know and we'll special-case it.

--Roger