Re: [tor-talk] high memory usage
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:35 AM, eliaz el...@tormail.net wrote: The only problem I have with the bridge I'm running is that for some reason the memory used keeps climbing up, so that after three or four days I have to reboot the machine. AFAICT rebooting doesn't affect the bridge's usefulness much, but I can't do much else when the mem use reaches 2.9 G. I recall seeing some discussion of this way back in tor-talk, but can't find it. Can someone point me to it? [Running on Vistax64 2.5 GHz dual core cpu, 4 G RAM] Thanks - eliaz -- gpg ID: C3E1E38D Are you running any other programs with your bridge that might be using your memory? I have a exit relay that is running the same cpu and ram and have never been up over 1G at any time. I also run a bridge, with at times other things and my total ram there doesn't even come close to 1G. My guess is you may have some other programs running in the background or other programs you may be using that is causing the ram to rise and using up your resources. Jon ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
Re: [tor-talk] high memory usage
On 2012-03-18, eliaz el...@tormail.net wrote: The only problem I have with the bridge I'm running is that for some reason the memory used keeps climbing up, so that after three or four days I have to reboot the machine. AFAICT rebooting doesn't affect the bridge's usefulness much, but I can't do much else when the mem use reaches 2.9 G. I recall seeing some discussion of this way back in tor-talk, but can't find it. Can someone point me to it? [Running on Vistax64 2.5 GHz dual core cpu, 4 G RAM] Thanks - eliaz Which version of Tor are you using, and what package did you obtain it from? On a Unixoid operating system, recompiling Tor with the --enable-openbsd-malloc configure option would probably help. But that code isn't currently Windows-compatible. Robert Ransom ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
Re: [tor-talk] Can't access Tor network: Question about Find Bridges Now
Andrew Lewman wrote: The 'find bridges now' button just hits https://bridges.torproject.org directly. If your country blocks that site, the button will not work. Would it makes sense to provide a .onion address for that and have find bridges now try both clear net and and hidden service? Sounds like 'chicken egg' problem; One's country blocks bridges.torproject.org to find bridges. There's a big chance that they'll block the rest of Tor also, so .onion addresses won't work. -- bigtor ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
Re: [tor-talk] high memory usage
Is it possible that someone using my bridge dropped something into my system? Thanks Jude. I don't think anonymity has been compromised, while running the bridge I haven't used the client, being busy with other things. I haven't had time yet for *nix. I've run VirtualBox for a couple of years. (For the devil of it I've run Vidalia successfully in Win2K in the VM, and also off a flash drive, but don't have any reason to think those two ways would be any more secure than running off the Vista host machine.) Thanks too for Jon's Robert Ransom's replies. I was running no extra apps when this problem started. I'm using TBB 2.2.35-7.1, it's clean. Looking at processes, I see way too many new svchosts. I'm running tasklists in a batch file for the next few days to see what the svchosts are carrying what changes as the memory use rises. So far no malware reported by AVG, I'll run a full system scan tonight. After that I'll recheck my local modem/router ports. The bridge has been carrying traffic from up to 14 countries according to the bandwidth usage, sometimes it's quite heavy. AFAICT the message log doesn't show anything amiss. - eliaz | gpg ID: C3E1E38D On 3/19/2012 12:40 AM, Jude Young wrote: On 03/18/2012 12:35 AM, eliaz wrote: The only problem I have with the bridge I'm running is that for some reason the memory used keeps climbing up, so that after three or four days I have to reboot the machine. AFAICT rebooting doesn't affect the bridge's usefulness much[snip][Running on Vistax64 2.5 GHz dual core cpu, 4 G RAM] Thanks - eliaz Weell, there's your problem. Your using windows. That right there is enough to kill any anonymity even if your using Tor. Personally I have seen Windows machines become infected when: It wasn't being used except once a week, The user was one who had a reasonable knowledge of security (Me) Anti-Virus (actually did not detect it..) Incoming connections where heavily blocked (related,established) You have plenty of RAM, run a virtual machine (virtualbox works great) install debian on it (my personal choice) no gui. give it 256MB of ram, no swap. (that's a LOT for this setup...swap off so that instead of freezing it just kills the process) run Tor inside the VM. Voila, ram usage will now NEVER exceed the size of the VM, and it's relatively easy to set up. CPU usage for the VM will also be really low. ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk