[tor-relays] most hibernating relays wake up at the same time

nusenu nusenu at openmailbox.org
Fri Aug 7 21:00:17 UTC 2015


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> On 08/06/2015 11:29 PM, nusenu wrote:
>> most hibernating relays with daily quotas start relaying traffic
>> at 0:00 local time.
> 
> https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en
> 
> AccountingMax
> 
> [...] When the number of bytes is exhausted, Tor will hibernate
> until some time in the next accounting period. To prevent all
> servers from waking at the same time, Tor will also wait until a
> random point in each period before waking up.

In reality this is not the case for most hibernating relays with daily
quotas - see the onionoo data linked in the ticket that shows how many
wake up at the same second (00:00:00 local time).
..but I agree that this is not a big deal just another observation.
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