I would like to understand the working of two exit relays, one is about 7 days old -the other worked as a middle relay before and is an exit now for about two weeks. The second one has a higher potential connection up to 250 Mbit/s while the first is supposed to be limited on 100 Mbit/s. They both run (Linux 3.16.0-4...), Tor 0.2.7.6, both use half or less of their CPU and Memory.
So why does the second node in a different city in Eastern Europe not attract more traffic compared to the first one and thereby uses its full capacity, even when the second one is longer in the market?
Could please somebody explain or send me some links to read ? Does this depend on the location of the node and in which way?
Node 1:
day rx | tx | total | avg. rate ------------------------+-------------+-------------+--------------- 26.05.2016 594,06 MiB | 121,20 MiB | 715,27 MiB | 67,82 kbit/s 27.05.2016 30,22 GiB | 30,20 GiB | 60,42 GiB | 5,87 Mbit/s 28.05.2016 188,73 GiB | 191,03 GiB | 379,76 GiB | 36,87 Mbit/s 29.05.2016 216,98 GiB | 220,23 GiB | 437,21 GiB | 42,45 Mbit/s 30.05.2016 280,10 GiB | 285,21 GiB | 565,31 GiB | 54,89 Mbit/s 31.05.2016 334,17 GiB | 338,36 GiB | 672,53 GiB | 65,30 Mbit/s 01.06.2016 678,74 GiB | 691,32 GiB | 1,34 TiB | 133,02 Mbit/s 02.06.2016 714,88 GiB | 726,10 GiB | 1,41 TiB |
Node2:
day rx | tx | total | avg. rate ------------------------+-------------+-------------+--------------- 05/12/16 24.68 GiB | 25.66 GiB | 50.34 GiB | 4.89 Mbit/s 05/13/16 64.18 GiB | 66.27 GiB | 130.45 GiB | 12.67 Mbit/s 05/14/16 68.34 GiB | 70.30 GiB | 138.63 GiB | 13.46 Mbit/s 05/15/16 66.34 GiB | 68.00 GiB | 134.34 GiB | 13.04 Mbit/s 05/16/16 72.87 GiB | 74.51 GiB | 147.38 GiB | 14.31 Mbit/s 05/17/16 73.32 GiB | 74.74 GiB | 148.06 GiB | 14.38 Mbit/s 05/18/16 81.14 GiB | 82.17 GiB | 163.30 GiB | 15.86 Mbit/s 05/19/16 72.22 GiB | 74.33 GiB | 146.55 GiB | 14.23 Mbit/s 05/20/16 74.62 GiB | 76.93 GiB | 151.55 GiB | 14.71 Mbit/s 05/21/16 96.44 GiB | 98.68 GiB | 195.12 GiB | 18.94 Mbit/s 05/22/16 227.48 GiB | 225.03 GiB | 452.50 GiB | 43.93 Mbit/s 05/23/16 216.46 GiB | 214.71 GiB | 431.17 GiB | 41.86 Mbit/s 05/24/16 231.87 GiB | 227.53 GiB | 459.41 GiB | 44.60 Mbit/s 05/25/16 302.77 GiB | 298.03 GiB | 600.80 GiB | 58.33 Mbit/s 05/26/16 280.37 GiB | 273.64 GiB | 554.01 GiB | 53.79 Mbit/s 05/27/16 318.75 GiB | 312.23 GiB | 630.98 GiB | 61.26 Mbit/s 05/28/16 317.57 GiB | 311.64 GiB | 629.21 GiB | 61.09 Mbit/s 05/29/16 271.41 GiB | 267.75 GiB | 539.16 GiB | 52.35 Mbit/s 05/30/16 290.85 GiB | 284.82 GiB | 575.67 GiB | 55.89 Mbit/s 05/31/16 323.61 GiB | 313.39 GiB | 637.00 GiB | 61.85 Mbit/s 06/01/16 279.34 GiB | 276.31 GiB | 555.65 GiB | 53.95 Mbit/s 06/02/16 259.17 GiB | 256.20 GiB | 515.38 GiB |