Re: Periodic server problems

[Colin Tuckley <colin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marco A. Calamari wrote:
> Starting from three week ago, all mixminion node I know of
>  (4) experienced this problem.
> When inspecting we find 10-30MB in the outgoing queue.
> 
> Wiping packet and restarting solve the problem fo 
>  1-2 week
> 
> Some flood?
> A side effect of the bad shape of hal of remailer ?
> Paranoy 

I've been noticing this for several months. My miniontest stats get worse
and worse so I restart my server and things get better again for a while.

I'm not sure if this is a problem in mixminion or if the problem is deeper
and to do with python or it's run time environment. I've read somewhere that
writing long running applications in Python is a bad thing because of
problems with garbage collection etc.

I've also reduced the maximum number of nodes that my miniontest app uses
(to 4). Unfortunately the box died a couple of weeks ago while I was away
and only got restarted on Sunday so the results are not very meaningful at
the moment.

Colin

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