Re: [tor-relays] excessive bandwidth assigned bandwidth-limited exit relay

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor teor2345@gmail.com wrote:

Can you help me understand what you think the bug is?

Relay is assigned a consensus weight that is too high w/r/t rate limit. Excess weight appears to be due to high quality of TCP/IP connectivity and low latency of relay. Result is overloaded relay and poor end-use latency.

Is Tor using more bandwidth that the BandwidthRate?

No, but relay is loaded to flat-line maximum and clearly is attracting too many circuits.

If so, this is a bug, and should be reported on the Tor Trac.

Not interested in doing that. Looking for a way to get it work.

If the relay stays overloaded I'll try a packet-dropping IPTABLES rule to "dirty-up" the connection.