Re: Tor relay on vserver exeeding numtcpsock

2011-01-13 Thread Jan Weiher
2011/1/13 Olaf Selke : > On 12.01.2011 22:02, coderman wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Klaus Layer wrote: >>> ... >>> "Error creating network socket: No buffer space available" >>> >>> errors. The numtcpsocks parameter limit is set to 550 on the vserver. Before >>> asking the ISP to inc

Re: Tor relay on vserver exeeding numtcpsock

2011-01-13 Thread Olaf Selke
On 12.01.2011 22:02, coderman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Klaus Layer wrote: >> ... >> "Error creating network socket: No buffer space available" >> >> errors. The numtcpsocks parameter limit is set to 550 on the vserver. Before >> asking the ISP to increase the value I would like to

Re: Tor relay on vserver exeeding numtcpsock

2011-01-13 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi, On 13.01.2011 09:51, Klaus Layer wrote: > Moritz, from which ISP did you get this $20 vserver? I am still running a limited exit node (accept 22,53,443) on United Hoster's "VPS Home". To be honest, I haven't told them about it, but their TOS does not explicitly disallow it. On that node I hav

Re: Tor relay on vserver exeeding numtcpsock

2011-01-13 Thread Klaus Layer
Am Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2011, um 22:44:12 schrieb Moritz Bartl: > Hi, > > You should probably contact the ISP first to see if they will raise the > limit. Mine was low on file descriptors and they upped it generously 5 > minutes later (on a cheap $20 vserver). > > Moritz > Thanks for all your s

Re: Tor relay on vserver exeeding numtcpsock

2011-01-12 Thread Thomas S. Benjamin
I believe that Klaus is already planning to contact his ISP, and was seeking to learn more about reasonable values for numtcpsock. Unfortunately different ISPs do this in different ways, and some cannot easily change just that parameter in isolation. Before paying much money for a numtcpsock incre

Re: Tor relay on vserver exeeding numtcpsock

2011-01-12 Thread Thomas S. Benjamin
Klaus, My relay (also Virtuozzo based) has a similar problem. Have you tried running with the "ConstrainedSockets 1" option set in your torrc? This may solve your problem. You may want to experiment with different rate limits to tune your relay to your available resources. I have to continually

Re: Tor relay on vserver exeeding numtcpsock

2011-01-12 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi, You should probably contact the ISP first to see if they will raise the limit. Mine was low on file descriptors and they upped it generously 5 minutes later (on a cheap $20 vserver). Moritz On 12.01.2011 22:02, coderman wrote: >> "Error creating network socket: No buffer space available" >>

Re: Tor relay on vserver exeeding numtcpsock

2011-01-12 Thread coderman
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Klaus Layer wrote: > ... > "Error creating network socket: No buffer space available" > > errors. The numtcpsocks parameter limit is set to 550 on the vserver. Before > asking the ISP to increase the value I would like to ask you what a reasonable > value  of this

Tor relay on vserver exeeding numtcpsock

2011-01-12 Thread Klaus Layer
Hi all, after running 2 tor relays over dialup connections for several weeks, I recently ordered a vserver (Hosteurope Virtual Server Linux L 4.0) and setup a middleman tor relay. Very fast the vserver run into shortage of tcp sockets which indicate lots of "Error creating network socket: No b