Hi teor
Thanks for the reply. I'm not having issues with my relay, and I've seen the mail about extra users indeed. Just an observation, as I've just noticed few waves of these in last couple of hours. The start very abruptly and end just as well. Not an expert, but I find it statistically significant to receive so many connections (499 for one /24) form a single subnet to one specific middle node. Unless that can be explained.
Regards
On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 at 23:25 teor teor2345@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 Jan 2018, at 08:52, r1610091651 r1610091651@telenet.be wrote:
Outcome of a script to count # connections /24 range
11 188.214.30.* 20 37.48.104.* 22 37.48.86.* 33 5.79.72.* 48 212.32.226.* 97 212.32.239.* 197 149.202.66.* 294 5.79.103.* 303 198.7.59.* 358 207.244.110.* 380 162.210.192.* 394 207.244.70.* 395 199.115.112.* 499 54.36.51.*And that on my lowly relay (consesus of 1k)
Other relays seeing this too?
Yes, there are about a million extra clients on the network since December. See this email for details:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-December/014002.html
If this is causing your relay issues, here are the things you can try:
RAM:
Set MaxMemInQueues to half your available RAM per tor instance. (It doesn't track all of Tor's memory usage.)
If your machine has one relay, if you have this much RAM, try this setting: 4 GB -> MaxMemInQueues 512 MB 8 GB -> MaxMemInQueues 2 GB 16 GB -> MaxMemInQueues 4 GB 32 GB -> MaxMemInQueues 8 GB
(If you have more than one relay on the machine, divide MaxMemInQueues by the number of relays. If you still have RAM issues, take down one relay.)
File descriptors / sockets:
Increase file descriptors for your tor user, or set ConnLimit to the number of file descriptors available to tor.
CPU:
Set MaxAdvertisedBandwidth lower to shift client load to other relays.
T
-- Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)
teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n xmpp: teor at torproject dot org
tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays