Am Sonntag, den 24.02.2008, 16:09 +0100 schrieb Dominik Schaefer: > Andrew wrote: > > While I'm not an expert at any of this, I would think that ~100MB might > > very well be a reasonable size for a somewhat fast tor node. How do these > > figures compare to others running on Ubuntu? > My two relay nodes on Debian Etch (about 200k and 300k bandwidth) consume > about 200MB (250MB VSS) and 290MB (330 MB VSS). So, yes, without additional > information e.g. about the changes over time the 100 MB can be perfectly > normal behaviour. That the memory utilisation increases from startup values > significantly is expected as tor doesn't have to keep track of many > connections directly after startup. (And if tor consumes more and more memory > over a longer time it may be due to memory fragmentation or increased number > of connections.) > > Regards, > Dominik
Thanks for all the answers. I was assuming that tors memory footage was linearily increasing since startup, therfore I used the term "memory leak". This might prove to be wrong - so I will watch tors memory requirements on the server for a longer period and post the results. However, it looks like tor requires an significat amount of memory. My (rented) server has a guaranteed amount of 128 MB RAM, and I am running apache webserver with ssl and php, postfix mail, cyrus imaps and ldaps on it. I hope the server will prove to run stable with these application together with tor. Regards, Dietrich
