Feb 18, 2023 12:31:31 trinity pointard 'trinity.pointard at gmail.com' obsvj67j+tor-relays=lists.torproject.org@4wrd.cc:
Hi,
You shouldn't worry too much about your relay sometime appearing as overloaded. Sadly due to the ongoing network ddos, many relays show up that way. You shouldn't restart your relay daily, that would make everybody think it's not very stable, so you won't be able to get flags such as Stable, Guard or HSDir. In general to get a higher consensus weight, you need to have higher throughput, if your relay sometimes shows as overloaded, there is probably limited headroom for improvement.
I think the speed requirement was decided a very long time ago and wasn't ever updated. It's 0.5MByte/s (=4Mbps) for non exit relays, and half as much for exit ones. I guess not too many people are asking for tshirts, so having it that low isn't an issue for the people handling that. Running means first time, little over a dozen relays have not been restarted in the last 6 months. In general you should try to keep your relay be up to date, which necessarily imply a restart once in a while.
Best, trinity-1686a
On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 at 11:43, shruub via tor-relays tor-relays@lists.torproject.org wrote:
Hello,
so my relay regulary gets overloaded, for what I can only assume is an hardware issue, (which I can't upgrade rn) since I already applied the tor anti ddos scripts. It seems to be able to recover, however with a lower Consensus Weight. I also (stupidly) tried to have a cron restarting my tor daemon daily which also resulted in the latter. So I wonder, if there is any way to have a relay run more stable and I suppose with a somewhat higher consensus weight (I can only asssume making some further changes in advertising bandwidth etc.
My second question(s) is/are concerning the tor swag (I hope that's allowed to ask here). Firstly, what is the actual Speed requirement? In the tor ecosystem, every unit is MBs, and only on the swag site its KBs. But if my calculations are correct, 500KBs = 500000Bs = 0.5MBs which doesn't really make sence, imo(but I probably misscalculated somewhere). Secondly, does running mean it's uptime (aka Last Restarted) or the Time it was first seen?
Sorry for the wall of text for not much information, and thanks a lot in advance for your replies!
Best, shruub
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tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays You shouldn't restart your relay daily, that would make everybody
think it's not very stable, so you won't be able to get flags such as Stable, Guard or HSDir. Ironically, I've got all of these flags, might have gottem them afterwards I suppose.
It's 0.5MByte/s (=4Mbps)
Alright. It's interesting that this hasn't been abused (ig the tor community are just nice people :D)
Anyways, thanks for your reply!