Failed to hand off onionskin

Jon scream at datascreamer.com
Tue Dec 16 23:31:00 UTC 2008


Mitar wrote:
> Hi!
>
> From time to time I am getting this warning:
>
> Failed to hand off onionskin. Closing.
> Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation
> requests! Please consider using the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config
> option or choosing a more restricted exit policy.
>
> I have been monitoring the system and while it is true that sometimes
> it tops one processor, it occupies most of the time just 50 % of one
> processor. I have also configured Tor daemon to use two threads so
> even if it tops one it could still switch to another. But it rarely
> passes 100 % (that is, it rarely really uses two processors). The
> system as a whole has also not topped its CPU power. And while load
> does not seem to be so high I get at the same time this errors. Is
> there some other system bound which would be causing this and not CPU?
> Are there some other performance tweaks I could try?
>
> I am using Tor 0.2.0.31 (r16744) on FreeBSD amd64. Should I maybe
> upgrade to devel version?
>
>
> Mitar
>   
What is your CPU speed, total RAM, total H.D.D?



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