<div dir="ltr">Consensus & usage are independent<div>consensus: based on available bandwidth</div><div>load: based on usage by tor clients.</div><div><br></div><div>if total available bw increases but load doesn't, observed load on a node will drop.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 17:27, John Ricketts <<a href="mailto:john@quintex.com">john@quintex.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I also would like to add to this - if it were just the Tor network increasing in size I could see my consensus weight dropping and my bandwidth staying the same.  I'm simply not getting the 7-8gbit/sec traffic I was.  Truly odd.<br>
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From: tor-relays <<a href="mailto:tor-relays-bounces@lists.torproject.org" target="_blank">tor-relays-bounces@lists.torproject.org</a>> On Behalf Of Toralf Förster<br>
Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 7:30 AM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org" target="_blank">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight Dropping/Authority Issues?<br>
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On 1/7/20 1:57 PM, John Ricketts wrote:<br>
> I have been watching the consensus weight and bandwidth of all of my 50 exit nodes drop consistently over the past few months. I have not made any hardware changes in my data center<br>
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Which correlates to <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html</a> - your fraction just decreases if more and more relays join the party.<br>
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Toralf<br>
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