[tor-relays] huge increase in relay traffic

[Yoriz]

I am new here. Just started my first Tor exit ("privshield") one day ago, so I guess it is still "warming up"?! At the last heartbeat it only had 14 circuits open. For what it's worth: the same 504 gateway time out with a ridiculously long URL of hexdigits is in my logs:

Aug 29 23:19:59.000 [warn] Received http status code 504 ("Gateway Time-out") from server '154.x.x.x:80' while fetching "/tor/server/d/54BDF368367470FCBF015...067.z". I'll try again soon.
Aug 30 00:14:52.000 [warn] http status 504 ("Gateway Time-out") reason unexpected while uploading descriptor to server '154.x.x.x:80').

// Yoriz


On Aug 30, 2013, at 19:17 , tor at t-3.net wrote:

> Our relay is a few weeks old and I think it is still in the process of 
> ramping up its utilization to its configured max. Because of that, 
> I find it hard to judge what may be excessive on it.
> 
> The last log on our server had it at 13,110 circuits open. Yesterday
> it hit 10,000 once but seemed to be more hanging around 8,000.
> The server's CPU is around 75% utilization. I don't see any error 
> messages in the logs indicating inability to accommodate circuit
> requests. Traffic is higher today than yesterday but looking at it
> in the context of the past week and the steady increase, 
> it's not way out of line.
> 
> Only odd thing I saw this in the logs was this. I've put in 
> XXXXXXXX to cover the IP address, as I don't know what the log is about.
> 
> "Aug 30 12:07:02.000 [warn] Received http status code 504 ("Gateway 
> Time-out") 
> from server 'XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:80' while fetching "
> 
> And then there is a very long string designating a path
> which starts with "/tor/server" and then has a whole bunch of 40-digit
> hexadecimal numbers separated with + signs, and then the whole thing
> ends with a single ".z". Then the line says "I'll try again soon."
> .
> .
> .
> 
> On Friday 30/08/2013 at 12:38 pm, Stracci wrote:
>> I can also confirm that I'm seeing that message on all 4 of my exit's too. (as well as nearly double the amount of connections).
>> 
>> -Stracci
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "mick" <mbm at rlogin.net>
>> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
>> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 9:27:12 AM
>> Subject: [tor-relays] huge increase in relay traffic
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Mick 
>> 
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>> 
>> Mick Morgan
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