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<div>Our relay is a few weeks old and I think it is still in the process of <br>ramping up its utilization to its configured max. Because of that, <br>I find it hard to judge what may be excessive on it.<br><br>The last log on our server had it at 13,110 circuits open. Yesterday<br>it hit 10,000 once but seemed to be more hanging around 8,000.<br>The server's CPU is around 75% utilization. I don't see any error <br>messages in the logs indicating inability to accommodate circuit<br>requests. Traffic is higher today than yesterday but looking at it<br>in the context of the past week and the steady increase, <br>it's not way out of line.<br><br>Only odd thing I saw this in the logs was this. I've put in <br>XXXXXXXX to cover the IP address, as I don't know what the log is about.<br><br>"Aug 30 12:07:02.000 [warn] Received http status code 504 ("Gateway <br>Time-out") <br>from server 'XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:80' while fetching "<br><br>And then there is a very long string designating a path<br>which starts with "/tor/server" and then has a whole bunch of 40-digit<br>hexadecimal numbers separated with + signs, and then the whole thing<br>ends with a single ".z". Then the line says "I'll try again soon."<br>.<br>.<br>.<br><br></div><div id="editor_signature"></div><div>On Friday 30/08/2013 at 12:38 pm, Stracci wrote: </div><blockquote type="cite">I can also confirm that I'm seeing that message on all 4 of my exit's too. (as well as nearly double the amount of connections).<br><br>-Stracci<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "mick" <mbm@rlogin.net><br>To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br>Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 9:27:12 AM<br>Subject: [tor-relays] huge increase in relay traffic<br><br>I'm currently seeing more than a doubling of connections (from a mean of<br>c. 2000 established connections to just over 5000) on my relay at<br>0xbaddad. The log is full of the (expected) messages:<br>"Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation<br>requests!"<br><br>I guess this is related to the massive jump in connected clients<br>in the past few days and I assume that everyone else is seeing<br>something similar.<br><br>Mick <br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br> Mick Morgan<br> gpg fingerprint: FC23 3338 F664 5E66 876B 72C0 0A1F E60B 5BAD D312<br> <a target="_blank" href="http://baldric.net">http://baldric.net</a><br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>tor-relays mailing list<br>tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br><a target="_blank" href="https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>tor-relays mailing list<br>tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br><a target="_blank" href="https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays</a><br></blockquote><br>
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