[tor-relays] Hibernating / Traffic limit and consequrnces for the network.

Zack Weinberg zackw at cmu.edu
Sun Feb 1 20:19:45 UTC 2015


On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 02/01/2015 08:02 PM, Sebastian Urbach wrote:
>> Usually a few days before the end of every month my systems are getting
>> slammed with traffic / directory requests. I thought about that and came
>> up with the theory that a lot of systems with traffic limitations are
>> dropping out a few days before the end of the month. This means more
>> pressure on the remaining systems in the network.
>
> I was wondering why the exit probability of my relay was tripled during the
> past few days and now is at the usual level.
> Your thoughts explains it well.

I wonder how hard it would be to have relays randomize the start point
of their hibernation period, to stabilize the amount of available
bandwidth over a 1-month interval...

zw


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