# Standalone Snowflake proxy consumes huge traffic **URL:** https://forum.torproject.org/t/standalone-snowflake-proxy-consumes-huge-traffic/7409 **Category:** Relay Operator **Tags:** snowflake **Created:** [April 25, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/standalone-snowflake-proxy-consumes-huge-traffic/7409 "2023-04-25T13:35:45Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![dcf](https://forum.torproject.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@dcf](https://forum.torproject.org/u/dcf) #### Post date: [April 25, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/standalone-snowflake-proxy-consumes-huge-traffic/7409/2 "2023-04-25T15:27:53Z")
Thank you for running a Snowflake proxy. The high bandwidth usage is not abnormal. If you want to limit or reduce it, you can try different settings of the [`-capacity` command-line option](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/blob/5dd0a31d95052eca7e89cef8ccc527b74a1c6be5/proxy/README.md#running-a-standalone-snowflake-proxy). The default is unlimited; you might try `-capacity 10` and adjust from there. The (currently) two Snowflake bridges together transfer 100 GB about every 2 minutes, on average. So while 100 GB in 24 hours for one proxy seems like a lot, it is still just a small part of total Snowflake traffic. I’m sorry that the proxy is crashing and restarting. It is probably a bug in resource management. You can read more at the below thread and issue: > [@Anyone experiencing problems with Snowflake proxy?](https://forum.torproject.org/t/anyone-experiencing-problems-with-snowflake-proxy/6938): > > I run about 30 Snowflake proxies on various IP addresses. They are all docker containers and generally each proxy gets about 360-400 connections per hour and relaying an average of 1GB per hour. They’ve been running mostly smoothly until recently. For the past few days, They have started to consume a huge amount of RAM and I’m getting huge spikes in CPU. They consume all the RAM I give them whether it be 1GB or 7GB of RAM and start crashing and restarting one by one. What’s interesting is that… > **[fix(proxy): memory leak (#40243) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship...](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40243)** > > According to this forum post and the one below it, Snowflake proxy appears to start at 100MB RAM consumption and goes up to... --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.torproject.org/t/standalone-snowflake-proxy-consumes-huge-traffic/7409)._