Looking for tor users experiencing crashes

[Robert Watson]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, John Pettitt wrote:

>> I've had an informal, third or fourth hand report of kernel instability 
>> when running Tor under load on unidentified versions of FreeBSD. 
>> Obviously, this is a bit vague as bug reports go, but I'm interested in 
>> seeing if anyone has had real experience with this happening, and might be 
>> interested in helping to track it down.  If there are kernel crashes, I'm 
>> specifically looking for information on what version of FreeBSD is being 
>> used, a panic message / trap message, DDB stack trace, etc.  I'm assuming 
>> it's likely a networking related bug, which I'm happy to work on fixing. 
>> If it's not network-related, I can certainly try to track someone down who 
>> could work on it.
>
> For what it's worth I had tor running on my 5.3 co-lo box for about 200 days 
> without a problem (had to reboot for a kernel reboot after 400+ days of 
> uptime)

This is a useful report -- so far I've had about a half dozen reports of 
absolutely no problems at all on various versions of FreeBSD, and no reports 
of crashes.  Maybe this is a false alarm, or maybe it was a bug in a specific 
version of FreeBSD.  Or maybe it just requires very special circumstances. 
I'll continue to keep an eye out, and please let me know if you run into a 
problem.

Robert N M Watson