<html><head><base href="x-msg://16/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I am new here. Just started my first Tor exit ("privshield") one day ago, so I guess it is still "warming up"?! At the last heartbeat it only had 14 circuits open. For what it's worth: the same 504 gateway time out with a ridiculously long URL of hexdigits is in my logs:<br><br>Aug 29 23:19:59.000 [warn] Received http status code 504 ("Gateway Time-out") from server '154.x.x.x:80' while fetching "/tor/server/d/54BDF368367470FCBF015...067.z". I'll try again soon.<br>Aug 30 00:14:52.000 [warn] http status 504 ("Gateway Time-out") reason unexpected while uploading descriptor to server '154.x.x.x:80').<br><br><div>// Yoriz<br><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 30, 2013, at 19:17 , <a href="mailto:tor@t-3.net">tor@t-3.net</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="sw_message" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><div>Our relay is a few weeks old and I think it is still in the process of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>ramping up its utilization to its configured max. Because of that,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Time-out")<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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" style="margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(20, 79, 174); color: rgb(20, 79, 174); ">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" <<a href="mailto:mbm@rlogin.net">mbm@rlogin.net</a>><br>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><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><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><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>_______________________________________________<br>tor-relays mailing list<br><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>