Package: polipo Version: 1.0.4.1-1.1 Severity: normal Several Tor users reported that after several hours of usage, Polipo started to fail because of « Too many open files ».
Restarting Polipo seems to solve the issue. See the reports of the users that suffered from this bug: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1779 http://tails.boum.org/forum/504_Connect_to_www.bbc.co.uk:80_failed:_Too_many_open_files/ -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-486 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages polipo depends on: ii dpkg 1.15.8.11 Debian package management system ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib polipo recommends no packages. polipo suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/polipo/config changed: proxyAddress = "127.0.0.1" proxyPort = 8118 allowedClients = 127.0.0.1 allowedPorts = 1-65535 proxyName = "localhost" cacheIsShared = false socksParentProxy = "127.0.0.1:9050" socksProxyType = socks5 chunkHighMark = 67108864 diskCacheRoot = "" localDocumentRoot = "" disableLocalInterface = true disableConfiguration = true dnsUseGethostbyname = yes disableVia = true censoredHeaders = from,accept-language,x-pad,link censorReferer = maybe maxConnectionAge = 5m maxConnectionRequests = 120 serverMaxSlots = 8 serverSlots = 2 tunnelAllowedPorts = 1-65535 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
