On 3 Oct 2015, at 19:09, Dhalgren Tor <dhalgren.tor@gmail.com> wrote:

Was going to wait a few days before reporting back, but early results
are decisive.

The overload situation continued to worsen over a two-day period, with
consensus weight continuing to rise despite the relay often running in
a state of extreme overload and performing its exit function quite
terribly.
...

The bandwidth measurement system now looks like a secondary issue.
The big problem is that Tor daemon bandwidth throttling sucks and
should be avoided in favor of Linux kernel rate-limiting where actual
bandwidth exceeds bandwidth allocated to Tor, whatever the motivation.
TCP is much better at dealing with congestion than the relay internal
limit-rate logic.