Hi David, thank you very much for your hints - i got now a better picture on how this could work on my ubuntu relay. Very interesting infos - thanks! I've setup some tweaks now - lets see how it works. If you are interested what i have did and if it helped - just let me know - i will drop you a message in a week or two.
Thanks! Geri 2014-02-01 David Stainton <[email protected]>: > Hi Geri! > > You may adjust the Linux OOM killer's settings on a per process basis > with the proc fs; see here: > http://askubuntu.com/questions/60672/how-do-i-use-oom-score-adj > > If you have multiple numa cores then it also might be helpful to set > the process to use numa interleaved memory > instead of just it's local numa memory bank... see numactl for more > information about that. Jeremy Cole wrote > an interesting article about tuning mysql with numactl a while back. > > Some people advise keeping a sacrificial lamb process that gets > oom-killed first. > > Also I always like to disable swap completely (e.g. swapoff -a)... but > sometimes I meet sys admins that > try to argue that having some swap is a good idea; i am not convinced. > swap is so 1992. > > I didn't explain everything or go into all the details here... so feel > free to ask me questions if you have some > problems or if something is unclear. > > Cheers! > > David > > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:41 PM, toxi roxi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > im running many relays which are doing a nice job. But i have also some > > smaller relays outside which have just 256mb. > > They are performing quite quell - but on one relay im facing issues > which i > > think you may help me. > > > > this relay seems to ran out of memory from time to time (2 to 5 days) > and i > > found out via dmesg, that ubuntu itself is killing the process to free up > > memory. > > the swap is used, but far away from full. > > > > as this stops tor immediately its bit annoying that i need to restart the > > releay without any reason. > > > > is there any way to tell ubuntu or to prevent that the tor process is > killed > > for freeing up memory? > > > > i dont care about other processes as this machine is for tor purposes > only. > > > > thanks for your expertise! > > Geri > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tor-relays mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
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