<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi,<div><br><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On 7 Apr 2020, at 19:56, petrarca@protonmail.ch wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello all - I see a constant mismatch of my relay regarding the Advertised Bandwidth vs. the defined and available RelayBandwidthRate.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Tor metrics usually only shows around <span title="" data-original-title="Bandwidth rate: 3 MiB/s<br>Bandwidth burst: 6 MiB/s<br>Observed bandwidth: 1.3 MiB/s">1.3 MiB/s as Advertised Bandwidth (Bandwidth rate: 3 MiB/s, Bandwidth burst: 6 MiB/s).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The torrc config defines:<br></div><div>RelayBandwidthRate 24 Mbit<br></div><div>RelayBandwidthBurst 48 Mbit<br></div><div><br></div><div>So everything looks fine, except the Advertised Bandwidth seems to be too low. Fingerprint is 605EE4375EE4C38215C8949F5808863749FD4F4A and there is plenty of bandwidth available (1 Gbps link). The connection is up-and-running perfectly fine without any issues or interruptions for at least a month.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Any idea, why the Advertised Bandwidth is so low?</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>On Relay Search, the Advertised Bandwidth is made up of 3 different bandwidths.</div><div><br></div><div>For your relay, they are:</div><div><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Bandwidth rate: 3 MiB/s</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Bandwidth burst: 6 MiB/s</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Observed bandwidth: 1.3 MiB/s</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"><br></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">You can see these details by clicking on the Advertised Bandwidths figure on:</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"><a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/605EE4375EE4C38215C8949F5808863749FD4F4A">https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/605EE4375EE4C38215C8949F5808863749FD4F4A</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The observed bandwidth is the maximum bandwidth peak your relay has seen. It's updated each day.</p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Tor is a low latency network, so it's normal for relays to be loaded at 10-50% of their capacity. (Congestion increases latency.)</p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">If you'd like your relay to get more traffic, please increase your RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst.</p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">T</p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></p></div><div><br></div></body></html>