On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:25:37AM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: > Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13 > o Memory fixes and improvements: > - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c, > to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools. > - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using > stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously, > this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code > on a typical directory cache.
Does this mean linux users should always specify --enable-openbsd-malloc ? > - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to > compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, > or both. Is compression negotiation (or lack thereof) visible to sniffers?
