Hmm, have you been keeping an eye on your logs? I eventually got a warning telling me that Tor had to stop opening connections because it couldn't open any more files. Regardless, Tor frequently opens thousands of files, while the default hard limit for OpenBSD users is 512-1024 files. My Linux nodes generally have 9,000+ files open across all users when mature.
I could be missing something - let me know if I am. On 11/21/2014 12:02 PM, li...@ggp2.com wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 05:51:52PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: >> In which configuration does tor need to open many files? >> I've been running a tor relay on OpenBSD for more than a year without >> any adjustments to ulimits and didn't notice any problems. > > I can second this. I've used Tor from packages for several years now > and have never had trouble from either clients or servers.
