tor memory leak under Ubuntu 6.06

Ringo Kamens 2600denver at gmail.com
Sun Feb 24 09:37:44 UTC 2008


I've used tor on 6.06 desktop and never experienced this, or at least I've
never had it get to the point where the impact on my machine was noticeable.
Hmm...
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Dietrich Schmidt <
Dietrich.Schmidt at bigfoot.com> wrote:

> On my internet server, tor has a memory leak.
> If I start tor, it requires 10 megabyte:
>
> top - 19:13:12 up  1:24,  2 users,  load average: 0.07, 0.04, 0.00
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 29872 debian-t  15   0 20784  10m 4372 S    1  0.5   0:02.68 tor
>
> After 16 hours of operation, it requires 94 megabyte:
>
>  top - 09:58:15 up 16:09,  1 user,  load average: 0.07, 0.05, 0.00
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 21569 debian-t  16   0  107m  94m 5376 S    2  4.7  30:22.60 tor
>
> My server is running Ubuntu 6.06, and I have these versions installed:
>
> http://mirror.noreply.org dapper/main tsocks
> 1.8beta5-2~~weasel-ubuntu.1
> http://mirror.noreply.org dapper/main tor 0.1.2.19-1~dapper+1 [959kB]
>
> Does anyone experience similar problems?
>
> What further information is required to solve this?
>
> Dietrich
>
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> Dietrich Schmidt
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