[tor-relays] Pi3 mid relay dropping lil bit of packets

[Sean Greenslade]

>> Hello,
>> I just started running my little 5 mbits mid relay on Pi3 on raspbian and
>> all seems to be dandy,
>> it picked traffic nicely, hovering around 700-800 total connections,
>> its not unusual to see it pushing full advertised bandwidth during peak
>> hours (with ~20-25% load on 1 core, multithread pls come already), tldr so
>> far nice.
>> Except with 3days uptime and 20 gigs of data relayed ifconfig shows 11
>> (eleven) packets dropped on eth0.

> Personal opinion here:
> 
> 11 packets dropped on 20GB of data sounds pretty small, and these packets
> might not even be from Tor. Literally any network service could have
> dropped those packets (ntp, ssh, updates, etc.) I wouldn't worry about it
> unless it starts to dramatically increase.

I agree. 11 packets dropped is literally nothing. I just pulled up some
stats from one of my webservers:

> packets:5436637 errors:0 dropped:4287 overruns:0 carrier:0

Server is performing fine, and the packet loss percentage calculated
from those numbers is 0.07%. Yours would be even smaller. Don't worry
about it.

--Sean