Tor exiting: too many open files

[Roger Dingledine]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 07:58:56PM +0200, Nils Vogels wrote:
> After experimenting with tor a little bit, today I started my server
> permanently and had it regged, so that I can also function as an
> exitnode (default policy says no exitnode). I am running 0.1.0.12 from
> freebsd-ports on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2.
> 
> Aug  8 18:13:36 euforia Tor: spawn_enough_dnsworkers(): 100 DNS
> workers are spawned; all are busy. Killing one.

Is there something wrong with your DNS resolver? For example, does
it use a DNS server on Jupiter or otherwise a very slow one? :)

> Does anyone have similar errors, and possibly, a way to keep tor
> running for over 12 hours ? :)

Please let me know if you've also seen something like Nils's problem.

--Roger