Re: Want a faster Tor? Upgrade, inform others

2007-09-03 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Mike Perry wrote on 01.09.2007 15:50: > [...] > In addition, many users should experience noticable improvement in > performance just based on the fact that we are choosing guards > in proportion to their bandwidth and expiring guards that were > selected with the buggy uniform algorithm. > [...]

Re: MyFamily issues

2006-12-27 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Hi Ben, Ben Wilhelm wrote on 27.12.2006 23:11: > I am having some trouble setting up MyFamily properly. I've found my > fingerprint without any issue - it looks like "DD91 7584 0D14 450F A3F9 > 482C 22AC 83B8 D861 E802" - but when I try to add it to the torrc in the > obvious way: > > MyFamily

Meaning of the notice "I learned some more directory information, but not enough to build a circuit."?

2006-12-23 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Hi, On my Tor server (roundabout, 0.1.2.4-alpha) the following message usually appears up to three times a day: ". [notice] I learned some more directory information, but not enough to build a circuit." I read once in a posting with a similar subject that this notice ist not further intere

Re: How to determine the current number of open files for the Tor user?

2006-11-18 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Joerg Maschtaler wrote on 14.11.2006 23:16: > The notice to increase the number of open files does not appear anymore > but is there a way to find out the value of "ulimit -n" for the Tor user > whithout login as Tor user? A friend of mine provided me the following patch whic

Storage of connection data committed by law for Tor servers in Germany?

2006-11-15 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Hi, today the Department of Justice in Germany announced a draft which commits a provider of anonymization services to store data of connections for the last six month. A german version of the draft is available at http://www.humanistische-union.de/fileadmin/hu_upload/doku/vorratsdaten/de-recht/b

How to determine the current number of open files for the Tor user?

2006-11-14 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Hi, after a notice in the logfile that I should increase the number of open files I follow the instructions of http://tor.eff.org/docs/tor-doc-server.html.en -> Step three -> chapter 16. (BTW, the provided link in this chapter http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#FileDescriptors d

What happens if Tor servers bandwidth setting is higher than the real bandwidth?

2006-11-14 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Hi, If the bandwidth setting in torrc is higher than the available bandwidth: What is the behaviour of a Tor server in such a case? (More precisely 0.1.2.3-alpha on a virtual server with SuSE 10.0 64Bit with libevent 1.1-2 and a kernel based on 2.6.8) Thx in advance, Joerg

Re: torstat

2006-09-02 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
BlueStar88 schrieb am 02.09.2006 01:56: > hi torlanders, > > today i got this ready to some useful state: > > http://node2.xenobite.eu/torstat.php Very nice :) BTW, what does "Guard" mean? Regards, Joerg

Re: Configured hibernation does not work after restart in an interval?

2006-08-05 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Hi Roger, First, i used the wrong logfile. Sorry. The notice from the logfile was from another server. Nevertheless the limit was exceeded on the server i meant. Roger Dingledine schrieb am 05.08.2006 16:20: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 01:52:17PM +0200, Joerg Maschtaler wrote: >>

Configured hibernation does not work after restart in an interval?

2006-08-03 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Hello, i use Tor 0.1.1.22 as a server. The limit for traffic which i defined with option AccountingMax was exceeded for both directions in the given interval. In the logfile i see the following notice: ---snip--- Jul 31 18:54:24.076 [notice] accounting_set_wakeup_time(): Configured hibernation.

Message that enough directory infos are gathered occurs twice

2006-06-01 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Hi, i noticed the following log messages after starting my Tor server (0.1.1.20): ---snip--- Jun 01 16:42:48.112 [notice] We now have enough directory information to build circuits. Jun 01 16:42:56.203 [notice] Our directory information is no longer up-to-date enough to build circuits. Jun 01 16:

Re: What happened after resolving of the IP has failed?

2006-05-19 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Oups... The subject should be "What happened after resolving of the name has failed?" :/ Sorry, Joerg Joerg Maschtaler wrote on 19.05.2006 21:19: > Hi, > > on my Tor server (0.1.1.19-rc) i've got the message in notices.log: > ---snip--- > [warn] check_descripto

What happened after resolving of the IP has failed?

2006-05-19 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Hi, on my Tor server (0.1.1.19-rc) i've got the message in notices.log: ---snip--- [warn] check_descriptor_ipaddress_changed(): options->Address didn't resolve into an IP. ---snap--- After this message no further message was written (for ~2 hours). My question is: Is this Tor server "offline" and

Improvement of memory allocation possible?

2006-05-11 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Hi, if it possible to add an option which allows to shrink memory buffers immediatly if they are not full? [1] I run an Tor server on a virtual server in which the amount of RAM is the bottleneck of this system. Since ~ 3 weeks i measure the "resident" memory allocation and the corresponding traf

Re: Recommendation for ISP in Germany?

2006-05-11 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Hi Lutz, Lutz Horn wrote on 11.05.2006 12:17: > I'm especially interested in > people's experience with virtual vs. dedicated servers. I run a Tor server (roundabout) on a virtual server at Strato. No problems occurred so far but i never exceeded the limit of available RAM (128 MB fix assigned u

Re: Number of processes and memory allocation

2006-04-23 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
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

Re: Number of processes and memory allocation

2006-04-23 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Peter Palfrader schrieb am 23.04.2006 23:09: > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, 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 sinc

Number of processes and memory allocation

2006-04-23 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Hi, 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. (Both server are running on the same OS.) So my q

0.1.1.15-rc: Complaints to values of option MyFamily

2006-03-13 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Hi, i run two Tor servers (road2nowhere, roundabout) and set their nicknames in option MyFamily on both servers. These "tests" are made on server road2nowhere. If i use the nickname of the other server (MyFamily roundabout, road2nowhere) the following message appears in notices.log: ---snip---

0.1.1.15-rc: After update from 0.1.0.17 the old server fingerprint is lost?

2006-03-13 Thread Joerg Maschtaler
Hi, i have just updated my server "road2nowhere" by compiling the source and installing "over" the version 0.1.0.17. The old server fingerprint seems to be overwritten with a new one during this update. notices.log shows the following entries: ---snip--- Mar 13 23:16:05.852 [warn] routers_update_