[tor-relays] minimum ram

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Gordon,

It seems useful to run obfsproxy bridges on $1 a month VPSs then.
Can weather.torproject.org be used to monitor whether they're running or not?

Robert


>>> Is there any utility in the very cheap VPSs with 128mb of ram?
>> 
>> I did some testing quite a while ago and found that 256MB was the
>> minimum amount of RAM for a relay. It works for some time with
>> 128MB, but it then runs out of memory, and it is not very good to
>> have it restart all the time.
>> 
>> I say "was" because currently, with more than 3 million clients in
>> the network, a relay might even run out of memory with 256MB RAM. I
>> don't have any current data on that though.
>> 
> 
> A 128MB VPS can comfortably support an obfsproxy bridge - just get a
> provider that doesn't reboot you a ton.  I've run a number of such
> bridges.
> 
> I would not go below 512MB RAM for a relay that is going to handle
> more than 2Mbps (about 200KB/sec) - you will eventually run out of RAM
> and Tor will be killed, and that's not great for the network.
> 
> My source for the above is a lot of blood, sweat and tears with Tor on
> the Raspberry Pi model B.  :)
> 
> Best,
> - -Gordon M.

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