[tor-relays] Consensus weight dropped

Karsten Loesing karsten at torproject.org
Mon Jan 19 19:45:55 UTC 2015


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On 19/01/15 20:14, Bram de Boer wrote:
> Sebastian wrote:
>> One theory might be that the addition of a new bwauth has
>> shifted which vote gets picked for the consensus. It's
>> conceivable that bwauths rate relays which are placed
>> topologically close higher than others.
> 
> Thank you for your suggestion. I hope that is not the case and the
> drop in consensus weight is just a temporary glitch. I will post to
> the development mailing list to see if the techies can comment on
> this.
> 
> Paying hundreds of dollars of my hard earned money for a relay that
> is not being used by the network is not something I will keep doing
> for long. I support the goals and ideology of Tor, but the project
> will lose me as a volunteer if consensus weight does not restore
> soon.

Did you check whether the consensus weight *fraction* also dropped?
If all consensus weights dropped by a certain factor, there's no
change in the probability of clients choosing your relay at all.

Take a look at Atlas' or Globe's consensus weight fraction graphs and
see if they changed over the past weeks or months.

All the best,
Karsten

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