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Re: [tor-talk] Is tor server now to heavy for a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B ?



You could make MaxMemInQueues lower, lets say 512MB for the RPI2B.

-Neel Chauhan

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January 16, 2019 8:01 AM, "Chris Dagdigian" <dag@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've been running a US exit node for years now and got kinda smug about 
> my uptime  figures. It's nice to have the stable flag, heh.
> 
> However for the past 6 months or so I've been getting an embarrassing 
> amount of 'node down' alerts from the weather service
> 
> It's always an OOM error for tor.  95% of the time I can ssh into the 
> box and reboot it and all is well but there have been 4 cases in the 
> last month where the box was so unresponsive I had to pull the power 
> plug.  That is a hassle when I'm traveling and makes my uptime numbers 
> even worse.
> 
> Right now I have a script that reboots the Pi in /etc/cron.daily that 
> seems (so far) to be keeping the system online but I'm starting to think 
> that my little Pi is now too underpowered for what it needs to do. 
> Thinking of getting a new Pi or possibly a beefier option like a Nuc or 
> something.
> 
> Specs:
> 
> Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1
> ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l)
> 923mb RAM / 1gb swap
> 
> For tor releases I usually switch between the current GA release and one 
> of the prerelease alphas.
> 
> Is this box too anemic for modern Tor serving as an exit node? Thanks!
> 
> Chris
> 
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