[tor-relays] huge increase in relay traffic

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> I'm currently seeing more than a doubling of connections (from a mean of
> c. 2000 established connections to just over 5000) on my relay at
> 0xbaddad. The log is full of the (expected) messages:
> "Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation
> requests!"
>
> I guess this is related to the massive jump in connected clients
> in the past few days and I assume that everyone else is seeing
> something similar.
Same situation here.
My speculation is that someone read about the childporn site that got
busted, figured the tor network is evil and bought a botnet to try to
Ddos it.

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