I believe that blog post, which I have also seen, is irrelevant (at least in my case).

1) Its graphs never show consensus weight dropping, only the throughput

2) My guard percentage has not gone up from 0 (presumably because I'm an exit node, not a standard relay)

Also, what units are you measuring weight in? Is that %e-4, or %e-5 or similar?


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:53 AM, s7r <s7r@sky-ip.org> wrote:
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On 8/15/2014 11:24 AM, Bill Winslow wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/5B06042B4911171026059FB694215B97D10E47E8
>
>  I've been running an exit node for a few days now, and around 8
> hours ago my consensus weight and exit probability dropped to
> essentially zero, after dropping substantially several hours
> previously.
>
> Why is that? Nothing in my logs suggests anything unusual -- but
> then again, I'm very new to this and thus wouldn't know where else
> to look or what to think about this.
>
> http://pastebin.com/mfkbPK9L
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
>
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One of my relays also had the consensus weight of 620 and today I
checked atlas it decreased to just 20, and nothing unusual in the
logs. Its uptime is the same like yours, few days (9 to be exact).

I guess this is normal and it will grow to normal. The lifecycle of a
new relay blog posts explains it, in a way.

Just give some more time to run and it should be OK. I saw your
advertised bandwidth is 512KB/s - that is reasonable, but the higher
you can give to your relay, the better and the bigger consensus weight
it will have.

- --
s7r
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