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Arm connection page shown as empty for one particular node
by Ralph Seichter 25 Sep '16

25 Sep '16

Hello, since updating my nodes to Tor 0.2.8.8, the "connections" page of Arm is not showing connections anymore for one exit node running on Gentoo Linux. On a Debian based exit node and on Gentoo based non-exit nodes things work as expected. The affected exit seems to work fine and bandwidth graphs look OK, only the connection list is unexpectedly shown as empty. I tried all listed "resolving utility" options, but that did not help. Any idea on how I might be able to debug/fix this? -Ralph

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Arm phantom keystroke issue.
by Matt Helps 24 Sep '16

24 Sep '16

Hello. The node we run is in our library and we have a raspberry pi SSH'ed into the node and an LCD displaying the output from Arm. Arm is bugging out on a random basis and appears to be receiving a C keystroke that I believe is the clear log command. I ran the pi with no keyboard and I even used another machine to display the ARM output from the SSH session and it did the same thing. Has anyone else seen this and is there a solution? It's a real bummer because we use this as a learning tool in our library and the pretty graphs of incoming and outgoing traffic really get people interested. When this phantom keystroke happens the graphs stop and somebody has to press N on the keyboard to get the pretty graphs rolling again. This can happen in 2-3 hours or upto 12 hours. See pic here. http://imgur.com/a/wrMhT Cheers, Matt

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adding multi-instance service file to Arch Linux's tor package?
by nusenu 23 Sep '16

23 Sep '16

Dear Arch Linux Tor Package Maintainer, I just filed a new task in Arch Linux's bug tracker, since you are the maintainer of the tor package I wanted to let you know about it (since it does not get auto assigned to you): https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50877 Let me know what you think. thanks, nusenu

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Re: [tor-relays] Rampup speed of Exit relay
by D. S. Ljungmark 22 Sep '16

22 Sep '16

On ons, 2016-09-21 at 17:29 +0200, Aeris wrote: > > > > 17 MBytes/s in each direction. > > From Atlas graph, your node is currently growing up, so wait few > weeks more to > have the real bandwidth consumption, but don’t expect huge change. It looks as if it stabilized a while ago, and I see more fluctuations in between hours of the day, than I see between days. > > 17M*B*ps is 140M*b*ps and you already have a good relay :) > This is around the speed expected for standard CPU (150 to 300Mbps > per Tor > instance, best CPU available can "only" drain around 500Mbps). For a relay, yes. However, on an Exit node, the traffic patterns are quite different than a pure relay, that's why I'm asking here for that. Exit traffic uses a metric ton more, short-lived connections to different parts of the world, and there's a lot of things there that I could probably tune better. ( Normal relays seldom have a trouble filling the conntrac tables, while exits do. ) > > And your CPU have all chance to be the bottleneck at this speed. Tor > is not > multi-core at the moment and so you can’t be able to fully use your > CPU > capacity. For example, if you have a 4-core CPU, don’t expect to have > more > than 0.25-0.3 load with only Tor (1 core fully used). Load is only about IO, processes waiting for something. That's why I quoted CPU usage, and the cpu usage per cpu isn't quite getting there for me. :-( > > You have to start another Tor instance to use a little more your CPU > (1 other > core) and so to drain additionnal 150-300Mbps. Scaling up on more hardware is always an option, but I really want to push the limit of the exit node, as the others won't be exits (Local network design, really) , and exit traffic is always more interesting. //D.S.

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new big exit operator on the horizon (Quintex)
by nusenu 22 Sep '16

22 Sep '16

Hi John, thanks for adding all your exit relays (with proper MyFamily config)! http://www.quintex.com/torgraph.html https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/contact:quintex https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ornetradar/2016-09/msg00090.html

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Caching new entry debian-tor...
by shraptor 21 Sep '16

21 Sep '16

What's up with these messages I get in tor-arm and log? Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor [62 duplicates hidden] What is tor doing?? Sep 20 19:10:21.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:10:45.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:11:09.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:11:33.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:11:57.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:12:21.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:12:45.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:13:09.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:13:33.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:13:57.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:14:21.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:14:45.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:15:09.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:15:33.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:15:57.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:16:21.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:16:45.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:17:09.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor Sep 20 19:17:33.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor seems to try to do it quite often? /scooby

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Why can't I see more traffic? (is my banana too weak?)
by Farid Joubbi 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

Hello, I have been running a middle relay for one year in a few days. I would expect the relay to push more traffic than it does. https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/875F74A3DC14737BECA06F8B500022154D1A2… What is the reason for it not handling more traffic? The Internet connection is 250 Mbit/s downstream and 100 Mbit/s upstream. There is nothing else using this connection. The "server" is a Banana Pro: http://www.lemaker.org/product-bananapro-specification.html The Banana is running Bananian Linux: https://www.bananian.org/ I know that the Banana Pro is not that powerful, but still I think that it is able to handle more traffic than it seems to do. According to top the CPU hovers around 10-20% most of the time. I have also been running nload and tload in order to see the load over a longer time. Does anyone have an idea of why I'm not seeing more traffic? Could it be that it is due to the quite slow hardware, even though I know that it is able to push more traffic? What kind of relay speeds can you expect from a Raspberry Pi for example? Thanks.

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Middle relay
by Jim Electro House 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

Hi to all! I'm running a non-exit relay and I'd like to configure it to run *only* as a middle relay. Do you know which conf should I add on my torrc file?

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Guard/Middle/Exit Hosting
by Markus Koch 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

Just 2 let you know, DigitalOcean has a new Promo: $15 free aka 3 months free droplet. Guard/Middle is no problem at all. My exits have been kicked after around 4 months (too many abuse mails :( ) Promocode: LOWENDBOX https://lowendbox.com/blog/september-hosting-vps-coupon-round-up/ I do not get any money from it, just to let you know, DigitalOcean is already big in the Tor network but its free money :) Markus

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Node families and guard flags
by Ralph Seichter 15 Sep '16

15 Sep '16

When running two non-exit nodes, configured as a single family with no other members, and using identical bandwidth settings, is it to be expected that only one of the nodes ever obtains the guard flag? The node uptimes are pretty much the same as well, but consensus weight differs significantly. I don't really understand why that is, given what I read about node life cycles. -Ralph

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