[tor-relays] Should I worry about sudden swings in connection numbers to my relay?

Dear List,

One of my exits, which has been up for 6 months now with an average of 2000 to 4000 connections, since yesterday has been jumping up to 10,000, 8,000, then back to 3500 or so. My history is a simple test file of date and connection numbers taken every 5 minutes: Sun Jan 3 07:20:00 MSK 2021 3233 Sun Jan 3 07:25:00 MSK 2021 3342 Sun Jan 3 07:30:00 MSK 2021 9679 Sun Jan 3 07:35:00 MSK 2021 3455 Sun Jan 3 07:40:00 MSK 2021 6800 Sun Jan 3 07:45:00 MSK 2021 3402 Sun Jan 3 07:50:00 MSK 2021 3346 Sun Jan 3 07:55:00 MSK 2021 3355 Sun Jan 3 08:00:00 MSK 2021 3358 Sun Jan 3 08:05:00 MSK 2021 10067 Sun Jan 3 08:10:00 MSK 2021 3343 ----------------- TIA,

--Torix

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