Re: [tor-relays] 0.2.4.17-rc on Pi, a couple weeks on

2013-09-19 Thread Joshua Datko
Just for comparison sake, I'm running a relay on the BeagleBone Black, running Ubuntu (raring), and Tor 0.2.4.17-rc with the following log entries: Sep 19 16:16:40.000 [notice] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 16771/16781 TAP, 13/13 NTor. Sep 19 17:16:40.000 [notice] Circuit handshake stat

Re: [tor-relays] 0.2.4.17-rc on Pi, a couple weeks on

2013-09-19 Thread Gordon Morehouse
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 18:28:18 -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 05:43:13PM -0700, Gordon Morehouse wrote: > > Thanks, Roger. I'm still not sure what finally caused the OOM-killer > > crash this morning after almost a couple weeks (?) of uptime. I was > > also seeing additio

Re: [tor-relays] 0.2.4.17-rc on Pi, a couple weeks on

2013-09-18 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 05:43:13PM -0700, Gordon Morehouse wrote: > Thanks, Roger. I'm still not sure what finally caused the OOM-killer > crash this morning after almost a couple weeks (?) of uptime. I was > also seeing additional clock jump messages but didn't have time to > diagnose it. The P

Re: [tor-relays] 0.2.4.17-rc on Pi, a couple weeks on

2013-09-18 Thread Gordon Morehouse
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:16:48 -0400, josh wrote: > You may be able to increase the ip_conntrack_max on your router. I had I can, and have, but eventually its 16MB of RAM becomes a problem. ;) The bigger deal, though, is I'm attempting to cobble together a set of scripts and best practices to

Re: [tor-relays] 0.2.4.17-rc on Pi, a couple weeks on

2013-09-18 Thread Gordon Morehouse
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:43:25 -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 06:50:46AM -0700, Gordon Morehouse wrote: > > The replay has settled into a fairly steady state (after losing its > > flags except Named) of sending 5-10KB more per sec than it gets. I > > have a feeling this i

Re: [tor-relays] 0.2.4.17-rc on Pi, a couple weeks on

2013-09-18 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 06:50:46AM -0700, Gordon Morehouse wrote: > The replay has settled into a fairly steady state (after losing its > flags except Named) of sending 5-10KB more per sec than it gets. I > have a feeling this is literally due to the TAP replies being bigger > than the TAP request

Re: [tor-relays] 0.2.4.17-rc on Pi, a couple weeks on

2013-09-18 Thread josh
You may be able to increase the ip_conntrack_max on your router. I had a terrible verizon dsl router that would have its connection tracking capacity exhausted by pings to games servers. I was able to partially resolve the problem my telnetting (yea I know) into the router and setting the ip_co

Re: [tor-relays] 0.2.4.17-rc on Pi, a couple weeks on

2013-09-18 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Addendum to addendum: the router fail is definitely caused by Tor connections filling up the router's ip_conntrack table - once it gets near full, it somehow interferes with a couple other services on my router (especially DNSmasq) even if there is f

Re: [tor-relays] 0.2.4.17-rc on Pi, a couple weeks on

2013-09-18 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Addendum: restarting tor instantly puts my router into a tailspin this morning. This is a WRT54G (old school, 3.0 hardware, 200MHz MIPS). While that's old, there are many, many consumer routers out there with similar specs and worse firmware. In th

[tor-relays] 0.2.4.17-rc on Pi, a couple weeks on

2013-09-18 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hey folks, Here are my reports. First the good news: it's WAY more stable. Then the bad news: it still gets OOM-killed once in a while, possibly preventably. THE GOOD (notes from September 14): Here's my Pi relay since compilation of 0.2.4.17-rc