Re: [tor-relays] Circuit creation "storms" overwhelming Raspberry Pi?

2013-06-05 Thread torsion
's how it crashed my router (blowing ip_conntrack limits is > > > sufficient only to mess up many of my TCP connections, but eventually > > > the router runs out of memory and starts killing processes): > > > > > > May 4 13:51:24 dedmaus user.warn kernel: ip

Re: [tor-relays] Running Obfsproxy on a Raspberry Pi

2013-06-01 Thread torsion
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013, at 02:08 PM, Richard Budd wrote: I've had no problems with the stock raspbian. However I've only got 720kb going thru it as a Obs. bridge. I'm constrained by the cable upload limits more than anything else. As far as running it on family members connections, I would likely hav

Re: [tor-relays] Running Obfsproxy on a Raspberry Pi

2013-06-01 Thread torsion
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Richard Budd wrote: Don't know how common this is but I've had a Pi running for 35 days 6 hours (so far). With over 80GB transferred on my half assed comcast cable connection. Not bad for $25 a credit card sized board sitting in a cardboard box in my broom closet.

Re: [tor-relays] Running Obfsproxy on a Raspberry Pi

2013-06-01 Thread torsion
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Richard Budd wrote: Don't know how common this is but I've had a Pi running for 35 days 6 hours (so far). With over 80GB transferred on my half assed comcast cable connection. Not bad for $25 a credit card sized board sitting in a cardboard box in my broom closet.

Re: [tor-relays] Circuit creation "storms" overwhelming Raspberry Pi?

2013-05-04 Thread torsion
I did a lot of tuning on the Raspberry Pi and it's now much, much more stable as a Tor relay, but just now I had another "circuit creation storm." Interestingly, the Pi remained up, and my *router* crashed. I've also seen huge bursts of circuit creation on a relay I run on a VPS, but as it's a mu

Re: [tor-relays] Circuit creation "storms" overwhelming Raspberry Pi?

2013-03-18 Thread torsion
I'm also seeing occasional messages like this on the Pi (it never lasts long): 18:13:24 [ARM_NOTICE] Relay resumed 18:13:18 [ARM_NOTICE] Relay unresponsive (last heartbeat: Mon Mar 18 18:13:04 2013) 17:28:43 [ARM_NOTICE] Relay resumed 17:28:38 [ARM_NOTICE] Relay unresponsive (last heartbeat: Mon M

[tor-relays] Circuit creation "storms" overwhelming Raspberry Pi?

2013-03-18 Thread torsion
Hi there, I just joined the mailing list and apologized if this has been discussed before. I did find discussion of a similar issue in January 2013's archive: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-January/001809.html It's important to note that I believe I've seen (but didn't sa