Re: tor memory leak under Ubuntu 6.06

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Subject: Re: tor memory leak under Ubuntu 6.06
From: Olaf Selke <olaf.selke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:18:59 +0100
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Dietrich Schmidt wrote:

On my internet server, tor has a memory leak.

hi,

There's a problem with memory fragmentation under glibcmalloc().

https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=468&area=comments

The Openbsd malloc() function solved this issue from mypoint of view. On anonymizer.blutmagie.de the Tor processdoesn't grow above 500MB any more.


Olaf

References:
- tor memory leak under Ubuntu 6.06
  - From: Dietrich Schmidt