Roger Dingledine wrote on 23.04.2006 23:13: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 10:58:36PM +0200, Joerg Maschtaler wrote: >> I run two Tor server which settings are very similar and i can't figure >> out why one of them runs only one process with a memory allocation of ~ >> 10 MB (online since 6 h) and the other one runs six processes with a >> memory allocation up to 120MB. > > Another explanation is that the small one is hibernating, meaning it > killed all its worker processes. When it wakes up it will respawn them. > > --Roger > >> So my question is: >> How does Tor determine the number of processes and the allocation of memory? > > http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#ServerMemory > > The number of processes is 1 + the number of dns workers + the number > of cpuworkers. > > The number of cpuworkers is typically 1, but you can control it with > the NumCpus torrc option. The number of dnsworkers is three to start, > and then Tor tries to be smart depending on how many DNS resolve requests > it's getting at once.
Nice to know. Thx for this explanation! Joerg
