[tor-bugs] #3641 [- Select a component]: TOR high CPU then crashes

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#3641: TOR high CPU then crashes
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 Reporter:  YorkshireJumbo        |          Owner:     
     Type:  defect                |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                |      Milestone:     
Component:  - Select a component  |        Version:     
 Keywords:                        |         Parent:     
   Points:                        |   Actualpoints:     
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 I've been using the Vidalia bundle for a while, changing to Polipo about
 18 months ago. I use TOR to anonymize the connection to torrent trackers -
 not for the peer-to-peer connections! I seldom use Torbutton on FF, and
 it's been turned of for several days in case that was the problem.

 The bundle started misbehaving a couple of weeks ago. I started getting
 lots of warnings about DNS resolution using Socks5, so I upgraded to the
 latest Vidalia bundle.

 Now Tor starts out normally, but after anything from a few minutes to
 several hours the process starts hogging a CPU (>90%) and crashes after a
 few hours. Restarting it repeats the behaviour. I am still getting the DNS
 resolutiuon errors. The only application routing via Tor is uTorrent - I
 have been using an old build (v1.6) of this for many months without
 problem, so I am unsure what may have triggered the change

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