[tor-relays] Few questions about relaying

[Matthew Finkel]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 02:05:24AM -0400, Blaise Gagnon wrote:
> Hi and many thanks for developping this project !
> 
> I have a dedicated 200Mb (25 MB) fiber optics connection and a dedicated
> quad-core Linux server (64). What is the best setup to get maximum
> bandwidth usage ? I'm still stuck at 46.4Kb measured speed and 3,51MB
> advertised bandwidth. The server has direct connection to the Internet.
> 
> Fingerprint : 5EF740BB88C75915F8316DFEC8F1C8631FF26F12
> 

Hi Blaise,

Thanks for running a relay!

It looks like you're currently peaking at a little over 2MB (with a
mean of ~1MB)[0][1]. 

I also see that the relay is currently hibernating. This will
certainly impact the amount of bandwidth you use. Did you configure
MaxAdvertisedBandwidth?

Below is what the network knows about your relay (with some irrelevant
details removed).

$ curl https://onionoo.torproject.org/details?fingerprint=5EF740BB88C75915F8316DFEC8F1C8631FF26F12
{
  "version":"1.1",
  "relays_published":"2014-10-11 05:00:00",
  "relays":[
  {
    "nickname":"QuebecFibe",
    "fingerprint":"5EF740BB88C75915F8316DFEC8F1C8631FF26F12",
    [...]
    "last_seen":"2014-10-11 06:00:00",
    "last_changed_address_or_port":"2014-10-07 07:00:00",
    "first_seen":"2014-07-17 17:00:00",
    "running":true,
    "flags":["Fast","Running","V2Dir","Valid"],
    [...]
    "consensus_weight":5950,
    "host_name":"69.159.127.80",
    "last_restarted":"2014-10-08 06:31:26",
    "bandwidth_rate":26214400,
    "bandwidth_burst":26214400,
    "observed_bandwidth":3512594,
    "advertised_bandwidth":3512594,
    "exit_policy":["reject *:*"],
    "exit_policy_summary":{"reject":["1-65535"]},
    [...]
    "advertised_bandwidth_fraction":2.777751E-4,
    "consensus_weight_fraction":2.4263727E-4,
    "guard_probability":0.0,
    "middle_probability":7.2791905E-4,
    "exit_probability":0.0,
    "recommended_version":true,
    "hibernating":true}
  ],
  [...]
]}

[0] https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/5EF740BB88C75915F8316DFEC8F1C8631FF26F12
[1] https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/5EF740BB88C75915F8316DFEC8F1C8631FF26F12

> Should I run multiple relays on the same machine/IP ?

You can, and it may help, but there may be a simpler problem that can
be fixed here.

- Matt