Re: Tor takes too much RAM

[Aquatorius <tor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi !

Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 10:35:56AM +0200, Olaf Selke wrote:
>>> Yes, my directory authorities are using way too much ram too. It appears
>>> that we introduced something bad in 0.1.2.x that wasn't present in
>>> 0.1.1.x.
>>>
>> today I noticed that according the FAQ tor needs 768 MB ram each 10 Mbps
>> bandwidth :-)
> 
> No, this is not true. At least, it wasn't true for 0.1.1.x. Some kind
> soul appears to have modified the FAQ to report the current situation,
> rather than bugging anybody about the problems. :)

Oh, that was me :-)
I'm quite new to Tor and never ran a 0.1.1.x version. So I didn't know that
the current memory consumption is too high. Sorry for that.

> You might try downgrading to 0.1.1.26 briefly, and see how it compares
> to the current situation.

I'll try.