Guard relay utilizing 12 GB of memmory ? Relay has been running barely 50 days

[Vort]

It may happen because of attack on your relay.
There are several discussions about problems with RAM consumption:

New kind of attack?

There’s something going on for a while and I haven’t seen any mentions of it. Wondering if anyone else is experiencing it. The problem is the huge unreasonable spikes of outgoing packets which cause RAM to max out and eventually causes Tor to crash. The interesting part is that even when you shut down tor and restart it after a few minutes, it start right from where it left off and in about a minute, you’re back where you were. See below: [Screenshot 2024-01-11 092127] This one shows the RAM…

Memory limits for Tor process

1 year passed, no improvements can be seen. Yesterday DDoS attack on my 0.4.8.9 relay began. Despite having MaxMemInQueues 512 MB and RelayBandwidthRate 4 MBytes options, tor.exe RAM consumption increased to 5380 MB. Looks like Tor have memory leaks. Messages about memory freeing appear in logs, but it does not help to contain RAM consumption growth. Dec 07 08:10:57.000 [notice] We're low on memory (cell queues total alloc: 373453872 buffer total alloc: 140982272, tor compress total alloc: …