[tor-relays] Out of memory: Kill process (tor)

Markus Koch niftybunny at googlemail.com
Fri Aug 12 13:17:02 UTC 2016


2016-08-12 15:11 GMT+02:00 Tristan <supersluether at gmail.com>:
> Last night I received my first abuse complaint on DigitalOcean.

Congratulations!

> When I logged in, I saw Tor was no longer running because the system ran out of
> memory.
>
> Is it possible the system ran out of memory because of the abuse?

No.

> My relay has 512MB of RAM running Tor and Unbound, and it's been running fine all
> month. How can I prevent this memory issue from happening in the future?
>
I think they make no default swap partition so you buy a higher tier
droplet ... but you can make a swapfile in under 1 minute:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-add-a-swap-file-howto/

worked like a charm on my two droplets.


> Thanks

You  are welcome.

Markus


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