On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 09:52:47AM +0100, Logforme wrote: > I run the relay Logforme (855BC2DABE24C861CD887DB9B2E950424B49FC3). > Yesterday I saw new messages in the log file: > Dec 06 09:28:13.000 [notice] We're low on memory. Killing circuits with > over-long queues. (This behavior is controlled by MaxMemInQueues.) > Dec 06 09:28:16.000 [notice] Removed 1040388096 bytes by killing 1 > circuits; 14631 circuits remain alive. > > Do I read that correctly as one circuit using 1GB of memory?
Wow! Never thought I'd see that in practice. > The relay and the > box is so far working fine, I just wonder if this is some kind of attack > or if anything is wrong and if there is anything I should do about it. Actually what you're seeing is a defense to an attack: Rob explains it well at https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-tor-denial-service-attacks-and-defenses Of course, it's also possible that this behavior occurred naturally in some way. Has anybody else here seen messages like this? --Roger _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
