On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 08:51:57PM +0200, Tim Semeijn wrote:
It looks like your node is running as guard. This usually drops your traffic for a while before it builds up again.
Tim is referring to the phenomenon described here: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay
And it looks like that dip and rebuilding already happened: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/94F9D8D35C4A4851B1DAF85F70F90DB95065E8...
I deployed a new tor-relay about 2 months ago. It runs on a server with 2 Quad-cores, 8GB RAM and 1Gbit connection.
So yes, this is a mystery. I wonder if you have a 1gbit connection to some parts of the Internet but not most of them?
How much bandwidth your relay uses is also a function of how much spare capacity there is the network right now: so long as the green and blue lines in this graph: https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html#bandwidth are far enough apart, then you won't necessarily be saturated with traffic. But it's still odd that you never see spikes higher, assuming your network can really handle it.
Is this normal or may I have configured something wrong?
Last time I had a relay running I received 100Mbit+ traffic...
What are the differences between your old torrc and your new one?
--Roger