memory usage slowly rising

[Peter Palfrader]

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006, Josh wrote:

> Josh <huber at paradoxical.net> writes:
> 
> > Relevant information:
> >
> > - linux 2.4.x under user mode linux
> > - guest has 64M of RAM allocated
> > - guest has 64M of swap allocated
> > - running tor vers 0.1.1.14 (official debian package on sarge)
> 
> I just ended up restarting my tor process, but here is a graph of
> the memory usage of the process over the past ~4 days:
> 
> http://anon-proxy.chroma-key.org/stuff/old/tor-week.png
> 
> Looks pretty leaky to me, especially with the Data/total numbers
> diverging from the RSS.  Here's the new process:

Looks quite sane to me.  Are you sure the difference in VSS/RSS ever got
used and is now swapped out?  I have about the same difference but only
8kb in swap, total.  This suggests it is memory space that was requested
by tor or some library at some time but never actually accessed.

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