Re: Tor takes too much RAM

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 03:46:08AM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 09:09:42AM +0200, Olaf Selke wrote:
> > on my Debian Etch box 'top' command shows
> > 
> >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> > 15486 debian-t  25   0 2329m 1.5g  25m S   75 78.2  17930:45 tor
> 
> 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.

Thanks to Mike Perry, we finally tracked down a little bug that was
leaking a huge amount of memory for exit relays.

The attempted fix will be part of the upcoming development release
(whatever version number it eventually gets), and will eventually
work its way into a new stable release.

If you're running the 0.1.2.x branch and you can't wait to help us test
it, check out
http://archives.seul.org/or/cvs/Nov-2007/msg00168.html

This addresses a big issue with exit relays, but there is still some
other issue remaining. We're not back to the 0.0.9.x days quite yet I'm
afraid. :)

Thanks for your patience,
--Roger