[Forwarding because John isn't subscribed at this address. Here's a more detailed version of what I said in my other post. -RD]
----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:59:41 -0700 From: "John Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Exceeding connection limit This happens because the user tor is running as has a system-imposed limit on the number of open file descriptors - one file descriptor corresponds to one open file or socket. Many linux systems use '1024' as the default value here - which is probably what yours is. The solution to this problem is to raise that limit for tor's user; first by figuring out what user tor is running as ('ps aux' will show this alongside the process). Then, you or your sysadmin should raise the FD limit for that user to something more reasonable for a socket-hungry application like tor. I use 4096. On many linux systems, this can be changed in /etc/security/limits.conf with lines like: toruser hard nofile 4096 toruser soft nofile 4096 I would recommend setting both the hard and soft limits (as shown), for simplicity. There are other methods for other situations or systems, but that should work on most forms of linux. Note that after changing this, you will need to shut down tor, open a new terminal (important), and start tor again for the new limit to take effect. Also note that some VPS/VDS systems severely limit open sockets, so if you're using one of those, you may not be able to use as many as tor would want. Hope that helps. - John Brooks On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Praedor Atrebates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 December 2008 15:47:17 Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > I don't understand this message. My tor log (in tork) is full of > > repetitive messages: > > > > 2008-12-03 15:42:38 WARN (1 of 1) Failing because we have 1004 > connections > > already. Please raise your ulimit -n. > > > > Over and over (with variable numbers of connections around 1000. > > Forgot: using tor-0.2.1.7 as a relay server. > > praedor ----- End forwarded message -----
