[or-talk] Re: huge pages, was where are the exit nodes gone?

[Scott Bennett]

     On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:23:35 +0200 Olaf Selke <olaf.selke at blutmagie.de>
wrote:
>Scott Bennett wrote:
>
>>>
>>> It appears memory consumption with the wrapped Linux malloc() is still
>>> larger than than with openbsd-malloc I used before. Hugepages don't
>>> appear to work with openbsd-malloc.
>>>
>>      Okay, that looks like a problem, and it probably ought to be passed
>> along to the LINUX developers to look into.
>
>yes, but I don't suppose this problem being related to hugepages
>wrapper. Linking tor against standard glibc malloc() never worked for me
>in the past. Always had the problem that memory leaked like hell and
>after a few days tor process crashed with an out of memory error.
>Running configure script with --enable-openbsd-malloc flag solved this
>issue but apparently it doesn't work with libhugetlbfs.so.
>
>After 17 hours of operation resident process size is 1 gig.
>
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  P COMMAND
>21716 debian-t  20   0 1943m 1.0g  24m R 79.4 26.9 927:51.27 1 tor
>
>On the other hand cpu load really seems to be reduced compared with
>standard page size.
>
     Olaf, if you're awake and on-line at/near this hour:-), how about
an update, now that blutmagie has been running long enough to complete
its climb to FL510 and accelerate to its cruising speed?  Also, how about
some numbers for how it ran without libhugetlbfs, even if only approximate,
for comparison?  (The suspense is really getting to me.:^)
     Thanks!


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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