<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">My Tor node is not utilizing the bandwidth available to it. I have tried setting RelayBandwidthRate to various values with no change whatsoever in bandwidth usage. </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Running for 5 months with 99.77% uptime: </span><a href="https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/1F6598EA09A82E7A5D3131E71A97C806E6FDA4A1" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/1F6598EA09A82E7A5D3131E71A97C806E6FDA4A1</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">My node has used a maximum of about 4MB/s or about 40Mbps. I've been expecting it to use 10MB/sec to 30 MB/sec. It dropped from 4MB/sec to around 1MB/sec now.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">OS: CentOS 6.x 64bit latest</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">CPU: Xeon E3 1230</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">MB: Supermicro X9SCL</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">RAM: 8GB</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Network connection: 1000Mbps</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Bandwidth tests show the server can easily send or receive hundreds of Mbps. I have tweaked server settings trying to get the speed up to no avail.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Tor v0.2.4.24 (git-549ec02c188842f6) running on Linux with Libevent 1.4.13-stable and OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Relevant config:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">DirPort 9030 # what port to advertise for directory connections</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">RelayBandwidthRate 30 MB # Throttle traffic to 100KB/s (800Kbps)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">RelayBandwidthBurst 30 MB # But allow bursts up to 200KB/s (1600Kbps)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">DisableDebuggerAttachment 0</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ORPort 443</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:20-23 # FTP, SSH, telnet</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:43 # WHOIS</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:53 # DNS</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:79-81 # finger, HTTP</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:88 # kerberos</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:110 # POP3</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:143 # IMAP</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:194 # IRC</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:220 # IMAP3</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:389 # LDAP</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:443 # HTTPS</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:464 # kpasswd</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:531 # IRC/AIM</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:543-544 # Kerberos</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:554 # RTSP</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:563 # NNTP over SSL</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:636 # LDAP over SSL</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:706 # SILC</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:749 # kerberos </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:873 # rsync</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:902-904 # VMware</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:981 # Remote HTTPS management for firewall</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:989-995 # FTP over SSL, Netnews Administration System, telnets, IMAP over SSL, ircs, POP3 over SSL</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:1194 # OpenVPN</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:1220 # QT Server Admin</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:1293 # PKT-KRB-IPSec</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:1500 # VLSI License Manager</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:1533 # Sametime</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:1677 # GroupWise</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:1723 # PPTP</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:1755 # RTSP</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:1863 # MSNP</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:2082 # Infowave Mobility Server</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:2083 # Secure Radius Service (radsec)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:2086-2087 # GNUnet, ELI</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:2095-2096 # NBX</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:2102-2104 # Zephyr</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:3128 # SQUID</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:3389 # MS WBT</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:3690 # SVN</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:4321 # RWHOIS</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:4643 # Virtuozzo</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:5050 # MMCC</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:5190 # ICQ</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:5222-5223 # XMPP, XMPP over SSL</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:5228 # Android Market</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:5900 # VNC</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:6660-6669 # IRC</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:6679 # IRC SSL  </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:6697 # IRC SSL  </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:8000 # iRDMI</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:8008 # HTTP alternate</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:8074 # Gadu-Gadu</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:8080 # HTTP Proxies</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:8087-8088 # Simplify Media SPP Protocol, Radan HTTP</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:8332-8333 # BitCoin</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:8443 # PCsync HTTPS</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:8888 # HTTP Proxies, NewsEDGE</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:9418 # git</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:9999 # distinct</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:10000 # Network Data Management Protocol</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:11371 # OpenPGP hkp (http keyserver protocol)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:12350 # Skype</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:19294 # Google Voice TCP</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:19638 # Ensim control panel</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:23456 # Skype</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:33033 # Skype</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy accept *:64738 # Mumble</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ExitPolicy reject *:*</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In addition, there's another Tor node running at the same ISP (but by a different person), on completely different hardware and a different router, that exhibits the same issue:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/50F37822AFA257B24B3343D9BBFB0442E900FB4C" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/50F37822AFA257B24B3343D9BBFB0442E900FB4C</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For background, I built and manage the network both servers are hosted on and have been doing so for 20 years. I also built both servers. The network is at less than 15% capacity, 99% of the time.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">CPU load is always at 0.00. Based in the USA, west coast.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ideas?  Is there simply less demand for tor traffic in the US?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cheers,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Jon</div></div>