Subject: Re: gethostbyname_r() ?
To: Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson@gmail.com>
From: Thomas E. Spanjaard <tgen@netphreax.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/17/2006 12:19:54
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Jan Danielsson wrote:
> [...]
> So rather than threading on these platforms, we
> made Tor fork new processes. This means you need way more memory to run
> a Tor server, especially an exit server. If you want to run a Tor
> server, we recommend you upgrade to a better OS."
> [...]

If Tor soups up that many threads cq. processes, it sounds like a very 
wrong design decision, they should use an event loop instead. So the 
'upgrade to a better OS' is completely out of line.

Cheers,
-- 
         Thomas E. Spanjaard
         tgen@netphreax.net

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