[tor-relays] Relay keeps crashing (raspberry)

[gerard at bulger.co.uk]

I had a pi3 running for 374 days.  Acting as a router.  No crashes.  Just sat there doing its thing.  I found them astonishingly stable unless you are thrashing the sdcard.  But I find my cameras beak SD cards more often than a pi

Not run Tor with a pi though.

 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: tor-relays <tor-relays-bounces at lists.torproject.org> On Behalf Of Alexander Færøy
Sent: 17 May 2020 22:12
To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Relay keeps crashing (raspberry)

Hello,

On 2020/05/17 09:55, David Strappazon wrote:
> I've been running a bridge since october without issue. But two days 
> ago i realized that my raspberry keep craching like every two hours or 
> so.

Does the RPi crash? Or does Tor crash?

What happens when the crash happens? Does the device reboot? Does it stay in some unrecoverable, sad state? Or something entirely different?

> I have updated and upgrading everything: same problem. My power supply 
> looks ok.

Are you sure the power supply is able to supply the RPi during longer peak periods of CPU activity?

Have a look at this table[1] and make sure that your power supply allows enough current for the RPi to run in a stable manner. I have seen some stability issues with an RPi where I used a random power supply that was not powerful enough.

You could try to artificially create CPU load on the system and see if it becomes unstable after a while.

> does saving my "key" and reinstalling everything could help?

Difficult to say at this point. We need a bit more information here.

All the best,
Alex.

[1]: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/power/README.md

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Alexander Færøy
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