On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:19:44 -0500
Stephen R Guglielmo <srguglie...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a VPS with 512 MB RAM. I run nothing on it except nginx and a Tor 
> relay. The relay is an entry guard and moves about 20 MB/s. It seems that the 
> kernel is killing the Tor process with "out of memory" errors. Are there any 
> tips for mitigating this? I don't have the money right now to upgrade to the 
> next higher VPS plan which has more RAM, unfortunately. Maybe there's some 
> config settings that I can modify to limit the RAM usage? Or, am I just out 
> of luck?

If you VPS is based on KVM, Xen or VMware (i.e. not the container-based
OpenVZ), you could add some swap space. But if it gets used too hard, you risk
getting warned or terminated by your VPS provider for disk I/O abuse.
And of course some performance degradation will occur as soon as Tor doesn't
fit entirely into RAM and has to use the swap.

-- 
With respect,
Roman

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