tor memory leak under Ubuntu 6.06

Andrew tor at kleinhirn.org
Sun Feb 24 14:56:43 UTC 2008


Dietrich Schmidt schrieb:
> I forgot to mention, that my internet server is running
> as a middle-node.
>
> Am Sonntag, den 24.02.2008, 10:34 +0100 schrieb Dietrich Schmidt:
>   
>> 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
>>     
While I'm not an expert at any of this, I would think that ~100MB might 
very well be a reasonable size for a somewhat fast tor node.
How do these figures compare to others running on Ubuntu?

Andrew



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