-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512
Richard Budd:
I'm seeing the same on all 5 of my non-exit nodes, they are spread around the US and EU. It seems that they all are running at close to max bandwith for the last several days also.
My guess is whoever is running the DDOS[1] figured out that they can most cheaply disrupt the Tor network by creating bogus circuits (and eventually causing relays to run out of RAM and/or CPU) rather than sending reams of bogus data through.
Whether that's true or not, my experiments with Raspberry Pi relays provide sort of a 'canary in the coal mine' - enough circuits and tor *will* consume all available RAM and be killed, as happened finally to me sometime in the wee hours here.
[1] I presume it's a DDOS because a) come on; b) look at the graph of clients connecting from Vietnam. ~0 to ~5000 in a week or two? Yeah right.
Best, - -Gordon M.