Hi Colin,

On a €3,- VPS I got conntrack errors in my syslog, as it had not enough resources to track all connections.

So I configured a stateless firewall to no longer have to track the connections. Now it seems to be running fine. I got my burst limit on 1Gbps and de default rate on 0.5Gbps. I have not set a monthly max.

A good place to get started on configuring a stateless firewall is the arch wiki about tor: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tor#iptables

Enjoy,

Maarten

Colin wrote on 13-04-17 21:54:

Hello all,

I'm having difficulties running exit nodes on VPS provided by Pulse Servers.

Conntrack shows the number of connections climbing to 30,000 and this is untenable (at least for the cheap vps from this provider).

I have tried MaxAdvertisedBandwidth at many settings with the same results, number of connections eventually climbs to around 30k.

I'm interested in input regarding:

• is it possible to reduce the number of connections, how does one

achieve this?

• given I have no other points of reference, is 30k connections on a

typical low-cost VPS unreasonable?

• anything else I should be considering?

Thanks all.

Colin

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