[tor-relays] too many circuit creation requests

[trshck_tor at riseup.net]

Hi all,

I set up a new tor relay named trshck using a raspberry pi a few days 
ago.

All was going fine until early today, when a lot of warning have started 
appearing in the log file:

"[warn] Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation 
requests! Please consider using the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option 
or choosing a more restricted exit policy."

I've looked up this message and found some comments but nothing clear 
about how to solve the issue. I think this can be related with the 
recent acquisition of the HSDir flag.

The relay is not configured to be an exit node.

The number of open circuits has greatly increase in the last few hours:

"Circuit handshake stats since last time: 4860/4984 TAP, 228464/229242 
NTor."

MaxAdvertisedBandwidth is not set, only:

"RelayBandwidthRate 200 KB
RelayBandwidthBurst 300 KB"

What do you advice me to do?

Regards,

Joan
Terrassa Hacklab