Gordon, It seems useful to run obfsproxy bridges on $1 a month VPSs then. Can weather.torproject.org be used to monitor whether they're running or not?
Robert >>> Is there any utility in the very cheap VPSs with 128mb of ram? >> >> I did some testing quite a while ago and found that 256MB was the >> minimum amount of RAM for a relay. It works for some time with >> 128MB, but it then runs out of memory, and it is not very good to >> have it restart all the time. >> >> I say "was" because currently, with more than 3 million clients in >> the network, a relay might even run out of memory with 256MB RAM. I >> don't have any current data on that though. >> > > A 128MB VPS can comfortably support an obfsproxy bridge - just get a > provider that doesn't reboot you a ton. I've run a number of such > bridges. > > I would not go below 512MB RAM for a relay that is going to handle > more than 2Mbps (about 200KB/sec) - you will eventually run out of RAM > and Tor will be killed, and that's not great for the network. > > My source for the above is a lot of blood, sweat and tears with Tor on > the Raspberry Pi model B. :) > > Best, > - -Gordon M. ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE SMILEYS FOR YOUR IM & EMAIL - Learn more at http://www.inbox.com/smileys Works with AIM®, MSN® Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger, ICQ®, Google Talk™ and most webmails _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
