<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7. Jan 2020, at 18:20, r1610091651 <<a href="mailto:r1610091651@telenet.be" class="">r1610091651@telenet.be</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Consensus & usage are independent<div class="">consensus: based on available bandwidth</div><div class="">load: based on usage by tor clients.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">if total available bw increases but load doesn't, observed load on a node will drop.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>We are talking about Exists.</div><div><br class=""></div><div> b n<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><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" class="">john@quintex.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></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 class="">
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From: tor-relays <<a href="mailto:tor-relays-bounces@lists.torproject.org" target="_blank" class="">tor-relays-bounces@lists.torproject.org</a>> On Behalf Of Toralf Förster<br class="">
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Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight Dropping/Authority Issues?<br class="">
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On 1/7/20 1:57 PM, John Ricketts wrote:<br class="">
> 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 class="">
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Which correlates to <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html</a> - your fraction just decreases if more and more relays join the party.<br class="">
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