I've been running a Tor Relay doing 15Mbit/s on chvps.com with 128MB of ram.
Plenty of kernel messages saying "Hey man, put some more RAM" but i just ignored them, added "file based" a +256mb of swap, and the machine has been running fine for some more than 1 month.
This doesn't means it's the perfect environment.
Fabio
On 2/14/12 2:42 AM, tor-relays@nickcoleman.org wrote:
After reading on Hacker News about Tor's request for bridges for Syria and Iran, I thought perhaps I could use my el-cheapo VPS for this. I use it to run an anonymous forwarding proxy for my own use. It gets very little use, so I can do without the proxy for a few months.
Mem is limited to 128MB, with bursts to 256MB.
Bandwidth is 500GB up and down per month. Tor can have half of this (note the up *and* down).
The caveat is that, because it is a dirt cheap VPS, I don't get a warning about any violation of the TOS. If I go outside the guidelines, they cancel my account. So I need to be fairly certain, or somehow limit Tor, that its memory use in normal circumstances will not exceed ~100MB.
Is it feasible to run a bridge within these limits? If so, any suggestions on config options welcome.
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