Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-09-11 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 This is quite a story - and I've found 0.2.4.x on the Pi to not have nearly the problems of its predecessor (and .17-rc to be a lot better than .16-rc)... Dan Staples: > Just to add my experiences to the mix: > [snip] > > Finally, I noticed that b

[tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-09-05 Thread Dan Staples
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Just to add my experiences to the mix: I started running a RPi relay back in January. It ran fine for several months, until I started to get these circuit creation storms periodically. It would come at random times, maybe once a week, and would some

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-09-02 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 tor-admin: > You could modify the tor init script to limit the memory usable by > /usr/sbin/tor as described here: > > http://jlebar.com/2011/6/15/Limiting_the_amount_of_RAM_a_program_can_use.html > > But I don’t know if this works on RaspPi platf

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-09-01 Thread tor-admin
You could modify the tor init script to limit the memory usable by /usr/sbin/tor as described here: http://jlebar.com/2011/6/15/Limiting_the_amount_of_RAM_a_program_can_use.html But I don’t know if this works on RaspPi platform and what happens when the tor process hits the memory limit. Regar

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-08-31 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Roger Dingledine: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:30:33PM -0400, krishna e bera wrote: >> On 13-08-29 10:35 PM, Gordon Morehouse wrote: >>> What on earth is causing so many circuit creation requests in >>> such a short timespan? [snip] > As for the ci

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-08-31 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:30:33PM -0400, krishna e bera wrote: > On 13-08-29 10:35 PM, Gordon Morehouse wrote: > > What on earth is causing so many circuit creation requests in such a > > short timespan? > > One possibility, if i recall correctly, is that the Tor that comes with > the PirateBrows

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-08-31 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 krishna e bera: > On 13-08-29 10:35 PM, Gordon Morehouse wrote: >> What on earth is causing so many circuit creation requests in >> such a short timespan? > > One possibility, if i recall correctly, is that the Tor that comes > with the PirateBrowse

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-08-31 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Andreas Krey: >> My main question: How do circuit creation requests on one's Tor >> relay cause load on one's network infrastructure? Is it DNS >> requests? Is it TCP connection state entries? It's not >> bandwidth, we observed that above, and my

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-08-30 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Since I originally started keeping an eye on these on my Raspberry Pi relay (read: slow, resource-limited), I've got to wonder if the circuit creation storms I was seeing months ago weren't normal network phenomena but some kind of test run. We are

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-08-30 Thread Troy Arnold
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 04:25:27PM -0400, t...@t-3.net wrote: > > Also see a repeat of the odd log message with the 154.x net address > someone else described with the huge hexidecimal string (40 hex > chars, + sign, 40 more, on and on). Just FYI, these messages were popping up pretty regularly i

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-08-30 Thread David Carlson
On 8/29/2013 11:09 PM, Andreas Krey wrote: > On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:35:37 +, Gordon Morehouse wrote: > ... >> Aug 29 18:19:14.000 [notice] Your network connection speed appears to >> have changed. Resetting timeout to 60s after 18 timeouts and 172 >> buildtimes. > Random data point: I had these

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-08-30 Thread tor
I added a second core to my server and it's still getting "Your computer is too slow..." error messages. Top shows cpu for the Tor process hanging around 60-75%, which is where it was before. Top's system total is hanging around "Cpu(s) 25.9%". That plus the VM manager's graph suggest that t

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-08-29 Thread Andreas Krey
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:35:37 +, Gordon Morehouse wrote: ... > Aug 29 18:19:14.000 [notice] Your network connection speed appears to > have changed. Resetting timeout to 60s after 18 timeouts and 172 > buildtimes. Random data point: I had these yesterday on a VPS-based relay. > My main questio

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-08-29 Thread krishna e bera
On 13-08-29 10:35 PM, Gordon Morehouse wrote: > What on earth is causing so many circuit creation requests in such a > short timespan? One possibility, if i recall correctly, is that the Tor that comes with the PirateBrowser bundle is configured to build single hop circuits. Make sure that these

[tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-08-29 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 So, I started having "tubes clogged" problems this evening and realized, finally, that my Raspberry Pi powered relay had been weathering a circuit creation storm since about 18:11 my time. tl;dr main dev-related questions at bottom Aug 29 18:11:03