Tor takes too much RAM
Ben Wilhelm
zorba-tor at pavlovian.net
Sat Jul 21 06:39:45 UTC 2007
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 98520 96772 1748 0 2220 5848
-/+ buffers/cache: 88704 9816
Swap: 65528 58480 7048
# killall tor
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 98520 41464 57056 0 644 10356
-/+ buffers/cache: 30464 68056
Swap: 65528 22496 43032
I'd love to keep it running, but when it's singlehandedly chewing up
more than half of my system's RAM, it just isn't going to happen. Any
suggestions on this? Are there config options I can tweak to make it a
little less RAM-hungry, or is it just intrinsically a memory gobbler?
-Ben
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