Does the exits/relays keep the circuit connections open?

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:45 PM teor <teor2345@gmail.com> wrote:

On 31 Jan 2018, at 05:54, Quintin <tor-admin@portaltodark.world> wrote:

nusenu wrote:
> If your hoster suspends your server if you exceed 10k concurrent connections
> I'm afraid it is probably not suitable for an exit relay

The response from the hoster was:
> Your server should not have over 20,000 unreplied connections. This is a sign of abuse.

What about the exit node causes such abormally high conntrack sessions?

It is normal for exits to have over 10,000 connections:
* 7000 to relays, and
* 3000 or more to websites.

At the moment, there are extra clients on the network adding some load.

For details and mitigations, see:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-January/014328.html
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-January/014100.html

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