<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div><br></div></div><div>On 6 Oct 2018, at 09:05, <a href="mailto:tor_manager@autistici.org">tor_manager@autistici.org</a> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>I have a tor relay running on a raspberry with raspbian 9 and tor version 3.4.8, everything is working fine for more then a year.</span><br><span>I noticed that the average download/upload is just 1.5 MB and the peak 3.3 MB</span><br><span></span><br><span>The Bandwidth configuration is the following:</span><br><span> BandwidthRate 9 MB</span><br><span> BandwidthBurst 10 MB</span><br><span> RelayBandwidthRate 9 MB</span><br><span> RelayBandwidthBurst 10 MB</span><br><span> MaxAdvertisedBandwidth 9 MB</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Depending on your location in the world and the speed of your network</div><div>connection, 20-35% utilisation is pretty normal.</div><div><br></div><div>(Tor load balances for throughput and latency.)</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>It doesn't look the CPU or memory usage are too high.</span><br><span>Is this something normal? How can I improve the performance?</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>If you want your relay to use more bandwidth, stop limiting the bandwidth.<br><br><div>Remove BandwidthRate, BandwidthBurst, and <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MaxAdvertisedBandwidth</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">from your config, then wait a week or two and see what happens.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Increase the RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst, then wait a</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">week or two and see what happens.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If that doesn't work, try reading the detailed instructions here:</span></div><div><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide</a></div><div><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/MyRelayIsSlow">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/MyRelayIsSlow</a></div><div><br></div><div>T</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></body></html>