[tor-talk] Tor client pushing large amounts of data?

[Robert Ransom]

On 2011-11-03, Sebastian Lechte <seb at stian.lechte.net> wrote:
> My local tor client runs 0.2.3.7-alpha. Just now I stumbled upon this:
>
> Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 2 days 6:00 hours, with 0 circuits open. I've
> sent 48.04 GB and received 992.41 MB.
>
>
> I don't run a bridge and don't run hidden services. Nothing in my usage
> makes me expect the large 'sent' value. Is the counter wrong or do I
> want to investigate further?

This looks like a mostly-harmless integer overflow bug.


Robert Ransom