<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On 25 May 2019, at 01:13, Matt Westfall <<a href="mailto:mwestfall@ecansol.com">mwestfall@ecansol.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>My tor node: <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/B1B10104EB72A1FBBF6687B05F1915D87D00DBDE" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/B1B10104EB72A1FBBF6687B05F1915D87D00DBDE</a></div><div><br></div><div>Doesn't ever go up above 8800 or so.</div><div><br></div><div>One thing I notice in Nyx is that my connections never go above about 2000 in and out connections.</div></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">That's unusual, because there are about 7,000 relays in the network.</div><div dir="ltr">How many simultaneous connections does your router support?</div><div dir="ltr">(Lots of them claim to support unlimited connections, but only support</div><div dir="ltr">a few hundred or a few thousand.)</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>I have advertised bandwidth of just shy of a gigabit in my config. I understand now that the "advertised bandwidth" is calculated based on observed traffic through the node, which while more reliable and avoids abuse, seems to be counter productive to a degree.</div><div><br></div><div>Ultimately what do I need to do to get more traffic through my node? Cause I have a 2Gbps fiber sitting here basically doing nothing so I was giving 1Gbps to tor :)</div><div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div dir="ltr">You could remove all the bandwidth limits, and put them back in when tor is using</div><div dir="ltr">more than you want it to. (Tor tries to keep some extra bandwidth to deal with</div><div dir="ltr">traffic spikes, so a 1 Gbps limit will get you around 300 kbps sustained traffic.)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Here's a more detailed explanation, and some other things to try:</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/MyRelayIsSlow">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/MyRelayIsSlow</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">T</div></body></html>