[tor-relays] "Relay unresponsive (last heartbeat:...)" every hour or so?

Deep Lodokus deep.lodokus at gmail.com
Sun Jan 31 16:27:30 UTC 2016


Thanks Tristan. I'll try with a network cable instead and see if it makes a
difference in the tor-arm logs. I'll also monitor the connectivity with a
frequent logged ping. And I'll contact the tor-arm guys if the problem is
indeed with tor-arm and not with my connection!

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Tristan <supersluether at gmail.com> wrote:

> I also have a relay running on Raspberry Pi B+. Not overclocked, connected
> directly via ethernet, capped at 200 KBytes bursting to 250 KBytes.
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> Tor is logging heartbeats just fine, and I haven't seen any unresponsive
> messages from arm.
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> It seems to me that arm just isn't keeping up with the logs from Tor.
> Honestly, if the Tor logs aren't reporting an error, I'd say you're fine.
> Arm is just an add-on. Maybe it just isn't keeping up with the logs, so it
> thinks the relay is unresponsive.
> On Jan 30, 2016 11:06 AM, "Deep Lodokus" <deep.lodokus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All!
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>> Running a TOR relay on a Raspberry Pi B+, not overclocked, over WiFi,
>> running Raspbian.
>> TOR is capped at
>>    RelayBandwidthRate 1000 KBytes
>>       and
>>    RelayBandwidthBurst 1500 KBytes
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>> While my /var/log/tor/log suggests that all is fine, my tor-arm logs
>> suggest otherwise. See some copy/paste from logs below.
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>> Is something wrong with my setup? If there's indeed a loss of
>> connectivity every hour or so, should I refrain from running this relay
>> altogether? I haven't tried to connect the Raspberry Pi directly with a
>> network cable, I could try that.
>>
>> Thanks!
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>> Snippet from /var/log/tor/log:
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>> *Jan 28 19:30:51.000 [notice] Circuit handshake stats since last time:
>> 576/576 TAP, 1281/1281 NTor.Jan 29 01:30:51.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's
>> uptime is 1 day 12:00 hours, with 23 circuits open. I've sent 565.53 MB and
>> received 604.21 MB.Jan 29 01:30:51.000 [notice] Average packaged cell
>> fullness: 98.805%*
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>> Snippet from tor-arm logs:
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>> * │ 21:26:44 [ARM_NOTICE] Relay resumed │ 21:26:17 [ARM_NOTICE] Relay
>> unresponsive (last heartbeat: Fri Jan 29 21:26:07 2016) │ 20:04:22
>> [ARM_NOTICE] Relay resumed │ 20:03:56 [ARM_NOTICE] Relay unresponsive (last
>> heartbeat: Fri Jan 29 20:03:42 2016) │ 19:30:51 [NOTICE] Circuit handshake
>> stats since last time: 639/639 TAP, 1104/1104 NTor. │ 19:30:51 [NOTICE] TLS
>> write overhead: 3% │ 19:30:51 [NOTICE] Average packaged cell fullness:
>> 98.954% │ 19:30:51 [NOTICE] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 2 days 6:00 hours,
>> with 40 circuits open. I've sent 1.72 GB and received 1.76 GB. │ 19:18:33
>> [ARM_NOTICE] Relay resumed │ 19:18:12 [ARM_NOTICE] Relay unresponsive (last
>> heartbeat: Fri Jan 29 19:17:57 2016) 21:26:07 2016) │ 18:21:37 [ARM_NOTICE]
>> Relay resumed │ 18:21:15 [ARM_NOTICE] Relay unresponsive (last heartbeat:
>> Fri Jan 29 18:21:00 2016) │ 17:22:44 [ARM_NOTICE] Relay resumed │ 17:22:16
>> [ARM_NOTICE] Relay unresponsive (last heartbeat: Fri Jan 29 17:22:02
>> 2016) │ 16:14:26 [ARM_NOTICE] Relay resumed │ 16:14:10 [ARM_NOTICE] Relay
>> unresponsive (last heartbeat: Fri Jan 29 16:13:55 2016) │ 15:19:40
>> [ARM_NOTICE] Relay resumed │ 15:19:13 [ARM_NOTICE] Relay unresponsive (last
>> heartbeat: Fri Jan 29 15:19:02 2016) │ 14:04:23 [ARM_NOTICE] Relay
>> resumed │ 14:04:01 [ARM_NOTICE] Relay unresponsive (last heartbeat: Fri Jan
>> 29 14:03:48 2016) │ 13:30:51 [NOTICE] Circuit handshake stats since last
>> time: 593/593 TAP, 895/895 NTor.*
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