On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor teor2345@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 Oct 2015, at 15:22, Dhalgren Tor dhalgren.tor@gmail.com wrote:
If the relay stays overloaded I'll try a packet-dropping IPTABLES rule to "dirty-up" the connection.
Please reduce your BandwidthRate until your relay load is what you want it to be, or wait until the bandwidth authorities notice your relay is overloaded and reduce its consensus weight.
You are willfully missing the entire point here.
HAVE set the bandwidth limit and the measurement system is overrating the relay despite this.
Dropping packets using IPTABLES will actually increase your relay’s load due to retransmits, and degrade the performance of clients which use your relay. An IPTABLES rule would also degrade the performance of the overall Tor network due to these same retransmits.
I will give it a couple of days to normalize, but if the relay remains overrated I will proceed with a IPTABLES packet-dropping rate limit.
The point is to have the measurement system set a rating that gives a 80-90% load for active circuits. At that load no packets will be discarded for regular Tor users. The packet-dropping rate limit will only impact measurement connections.