I'm a fairly new Tor relay operator and noticed something peculiar with my bandwidth for the relay recently. It seems to have jumped WAY up and just plateaued at what I have the peak bandwidth limit set at. Is there any kind of explanation for this? Is this normal behavior? Could it indicate some kind of denial of service attack?
Here's a screenshot I took of the bandwidth history: https://i.imgur.com/mRyKp9L.jpg (note that both R/W plateau at the same point in time)
Perhaps this is normal behavior but I want to know if it's something that might be messed up with my configuration that I can correct.
-Bryan
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:20:20 +0000, Bryan Carey wrote:
I'm a fairly new Tor relay operator and noticed something peculiar with my bandwidth for the relay recently. It seems to have jumped WAY up and just plateaued at what I have the peak bandwidth limit set at.
Someone is doing a big download, and it happens to go through your relay?
My relays often ran into 'flatline' (capacity continuously used up) until I set the AdvertizedBandwith lower than the actual limit.
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Here's a screenshot I took of the bandwidth history: https://i.imgur.com/mRyKp9L.jpg (note that both R/W plateau at the same point in time)
What bandwidth exactly (OS or tor)? After all what comes into the relay must go out again - the strange thing is that the burst does more 'Read' (150k) than 'write' (20k) while otherwise the traffic is symmetric. Sure that there isn't anything else running on your relay?
Andreas
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