On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:30:07 +0200
[email protected] wrote:

> Hi! 
> 
> I am running a middle-man relay on a Raspberry Pi averaging 700 kBps. The 
> board is very limited in processing power and memory. After some days, maybe 
> a week, the Tor daemon runs out of memory and I have to start it manually 
> again. I have tried different Tor versions, built alphas with and without the 
> --enable-openbsd-malloc but it's no measurable difference; eventually a bad 
> malloc will terminate the program. 
> 
> To solve this I have added a cron job to restart the daemon on a daily basis. 
> Is this an OK solution?

No.

Add a cronjob to _start_ it every 5 minutes. Not restart.

If it's already running, just nothing will happen. But if it died, it will
simply start. (Trust-me-I-know-I-ran-tor-on-128-MB-of-RAM-VPSes.)


-- 
With respect,
Roman

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