On 24 Jun 2018, at 11:18, Paul Templeton <paul@coffswifi.net> wrote:

I have two systems one a VPS the other bare metal and both will drop out of the consensuses about once a day(2 to 3 hours) but are running the whole time.

Hmm, that's weird.

Does your provider have a reliable connection?

I have 4 bare metal systems but none are at capacity and would like to find the best approach to get more out of them. Consensus is one issue that's limiting capacity usage.

We have a troubleshooting guide for slow relays:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/MyRelayIsSlow

Let us know how it goes.