<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br></div><div>On 27 Apr 2018, at 09:09, Keifer Bly <<a href="mailto:keifer.bly@gmail.com">keifer.bly@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><p class="MsoNormal">That’s what’s strange. I have double checked the tor logs and the only warning that appears is the “tor cannot help you if you use it wrong” warning; that’s the only one that appears.</p></blockquote><div>Then the problem is probably with your router or ISP.</div><blockquote type="cite"><p class="MsoNormal"> I did some research, and according to<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/145907/does-mac-os-x-throttle-the-rate-of-socket-creation">https://serverfault.com/questions/145907/does-mac-os-x-throttle-the-rate-of-socket-creation</a>, Mac os does have a maximum amount of network connections it does allow at once.</p><p class="MsoNormal">To find mine out, I tried running this in terminal</p><p class="MsoNormal">Launchctl limit maxfiles</p><p class="MsoNormal">The return was this: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">maxfiles 256 unlimited.</p></blockquote><div>These are the soft and hard limits.</div><blockquote type="cite"><p class="MsoNormal">I tried attaching a photo of the output but got a message back saying it was held because it was too big (the file was about 6mb).</p></blockquote><div>You can copy and paste text from the terminal.</div><blockquote type="cite"><p class="MsoNormal">I wonder if this would mean mac os only allows 256 connections at once?</p></blockquote><div>Tor increases the file limit when it starts up.</div><div>If it fails, it logs a warning.</div><div>If the limit is too low, it logs a warning.</div><div><br></div><div>You don't see any warnings, therefore the problem isn't on your machine.</div><blockquote type="cite"><p class="MsoNormal">How could I modify my torrc file to not go over the max allowed connections by mac os and still be a useable relay?</p></blockquote>You do not need to limit the number of connections.<br><div>You can not modify your torrc file to limit the number of connections.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The problem is probably with your router or ISP.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That's not really something we can help with.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps you should run a bridge rather than a relay.</div><div>Or get a better router.</div><div>Or run your relay remotely on a cheap VPS instead.</div><div><br></div><div>T</div></body></html>