Torix, thanks you very much. Nice to see someone who has experience with this reaching out. I got a response saying that most relays are run at data centers, not at homes, which allows them to stay stable all the time. It seems like it would be extremely difficult to impossible to maintain the stable flag on a home connection. Good to know I’m not the only one having this trouble, good to contribute nonetheless. For keeping the relay as stable as possible, what would be your recommendations? Would you agree with what I said? I ask this because to me, relay stability seems difficult to calculate. Again thanks very much.

From: torix@protonmail.com
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 5:52 AM
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight Definiton

Dear Keifer,

I run a small relay at home as well.  (I've never had more than 4,000/4,500 connections, and my home router seems to have had no problem.)  However, guessing from the tor docs on my ISP that I should keep my monthly throughput to 1TB or so, I put some daily bandwidth limits on it.  Before the dos mitigation came out a couple of months ago, I would hit the limits every other day or so, and my relay would shut down until midnight.  So I never had a stable flag for months, and still had plenty of traffic. 

HTH,

--torix

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On April 22, 2018 2:05 PM, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you. However another thing that is confusing me a little is that based off of my research, relays without the stable flag shouldn’t recurve much traffic; mine says it’s received a few gigabytes since the downtime 1 day ago. Thank you. It is acceptable not to have the stable flag and still be useful to the network correct? Thank you very much.

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> On Apr 22, 2018, at 10:39 AM, Valter Jansons valter.jansons@gmail.com wrote:

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> > > I guess not every relay has the stable flag, would be curious to know what the general percentage is

> >

> > You can check with Tor Metrics how many relays have the Running

> >

> > flag and how many have the Stable flag. By looking at the graph I

> >

> > would estimate around 80% of Running relays have the Stable flag right

> >

> > now.

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> > -- 4096R/A83CE748 Valters Jansons

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