> On 1 Aug 2018, at 04:09, Michael Brodhead <mkb_...@mac.com> wrote: > > Those of you running relays on low-RAM hosts, what do you do about DirCache? > > When I first brought up my relay I noticed this message in the logs: > > [warn] Being a directory cache (default) with less than DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB > MB of memory is not recommended and may consume most of the available > resources, consider disabling this functionality by setting the DirCache > option to 0.
That’s not a very helpful message, because it doesn’t say how many MB. We fixed it in 0.3.4 in https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20887 > When I DirCache to 0 I see another warning: > > [warn] DirCache is disabled and we are configured as a relay. This may > disqualify us from becoming a guard in the future. We want to update this warning, too: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24312 > As it turns out I can increase my VMs memory for free so that’s no big deal. > Still, I’m curious. What do people do with relays without much memory? Skip > DirCache? Turning off DirCache is fine, but it means your relay will only be a middle (or exit) relay. > Are there ways to reduce the memory footprint and still cache directory info? Run Tor 0.2.9, without the new directory cache diff and compression features. T
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