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Re: Exceeding connection limit

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Subject: Re: Exceeding connection limit
From: Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 16:00:11 -0500
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On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 03:49:08PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 December 2008 15:47:17 Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> > I don't understand this message.  My tor log (in tork) is full of
> > repetitive messages:
> >
> > 2008-12-03 15:42:38 WARN	(1 of 1) Failing because we have 1004 connections
> > already.  Please raise your ulimit -n.
> >
> > Over and over (with variable numbers of connections around 1000.
> 
> Forgot:  using tor-0.2.1.7 as a relay server.

See #16 at https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay#after

Basically your Tor relay has over 1000 connections open. Given that
there are 1500 other relays, and 100000+ Tor clients running right now,
that's not hard to reach.

If you were using the Tor deb, it would solve this step for you. :)
https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorOnDebian

--Roger

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- Exceeding connection limit
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- Re: Exceeding connection limit
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