I added a second core to my server and it's still getting "Your computer is too slow..." error messages. Top shows cpu for the Tor process hanging around 60-75%, which is where it was before. Top's system total is hanging around "Cpu(s) 25.9%". That plus the VM manager's graph suggest that the server's not doing much with the second core.
Also see a repeat of the odd log message with the 154.x net address someone else described with the huge hexidecimal string (40 hex chars, + sign, 40 more, on and on).
On Friday 30/08/2013 at 4:09 pm, David Carlson wrote:
On 8/29/2013 11:09 PM, Andreas Krey wrote:
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:35:37 +0000, Gordon Morehouse wrote: ...
Aug 29 18:19:14.000 [notice] Your network connection speed appears to have changed. Resetting timeout to 60s after 18 timeouts and 172 buildtimes.
Random data point: I had these yesterday on a VPS-based relay.
My main question: How do circuit creation requests on one's Tor relay cause load on one's network infrastructure? Is it DNS requests? Is it TCP connection state entries? It's not bandwidth, we observed that above, and my router can handle far faster pipes than the one it's on currently. The DNS failing is a sign that the router is under severe stress.
Possibly your uplink is full (supposing you're on some DSL), and is starting to build up ping time; then DNS requests to the outside can start to timeout.
Andreas
Over roughly the same time frame I received an incredibly high number of spam e-mails in one e-mail account that normally gets 20 or so a day on quiet days. Perhaps this is another example of mal-ware in action.
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