[tor-relays] Relay suddenly pushing very little traffic

Hello all,

I am the operator of relay AS11796EntryMiddle.

This is a strategically placed relay on a 106.4 mbps internet connection with no fluctuations in bandwidth available to it. The relay has very good peering to major backbone providers such as Arelion which allows many people to access it with minimal network hops, which is why I host it in that ISP’s network.

Over the past six months, I typically saw traffic ranging between 15 and 70mbps. Now suddenly the relay seemingly can’t efficiently process traffic, the advertised bandwidth has tanked, and it’s pushing virtually no data.

I am running Tor 4.8.12 installed from the official Tor repositories in Ubuntu 22.04 with OR port 9001. The entire network is an EdgeRouter plugged into WAN and then a firewall rule letting traffic hit the host for Tor. The relay is indeed working, but everyday it seems that less and less traffic is getting through (this is very evident on Tor metrics.) TCP connections are not exhausted so I’m pretty confused what’s going on.

Any thoughts? Not trying to waste anyone’s time just don’t want this relay to go to waste.

Thanks, Zachary