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1. Re: lower relay through-put: consensus or throttling? (Georg Koppen)

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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 12:51:05 +0000 From: Georg Koppen gk@torproject.org

Subject: [tor-relays] Re: lower relay through-put: consensus or throttling? To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Message-ID: 814fe4cb-affe-464a-91c2-6c0a52711ece@torproject.org

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Hello!

code9n via tor-relays:

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Hi,

For the last 5 months or so my guard / middle relay ( 41D4F82AB54AE5C5FB8D3CD24B4FC84350EFEF03 ) has been moving about 8MB/sec each way which is lower than it had been doing for the 2 years up to that point - it had been averaging around 12MB/sec.

There's been talk on this mailing list of northern European relays getting lower consensus weight recently. (Mine is hosted in the UK).

When my vps was last coming up for annual re-payment I told the admins there (Hostworld) that I was maybe not going to renew my annual subscription and the relay's through-put went up to around 20MB/sec for a while - until I'd renewed. So they do boost / throttle to suit themselves.

Could you give us some dates about when you talked to the admins, when you renewed etc. so we can try to look at the behavior of your relay during that time and correlate those dates with drops/raises of its consensus weight?

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So my question is: Is my last few months lower efficacy likely due to Tor (consensus weight) or throttling by my vps provider?

I am not sure yet but I might be able to give you an educated guess after looking closer at your relay's data with the help of the dates I asked you about above.

Georg

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(It's not my settings in torrc, by the way, they're set way higher than is being used and are unchanged since the earlier, higher, through-put).

Thanks,

Pete

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