[tor-relays] new (?) : Average packaged cell fullness: 96.772%. TLS write overhead: 96%

[teor]

> On 27 Nov. 2016, at 20:09, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster at gmx.de> wrote:
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> I do wonder about a log message which seems not to appear before :
> 
> ==> /tmp/notice.log <==
> Nov 26 20:10:45.000 [notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done.
> Nov 26 20:19:44.000 [notice] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
> Nov 26 20:31:13.000 [notice] Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config and resetting internal state.
> Nov 26 20:31:13.000 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
> Nov 26 20:31:13.000 [notice] Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha opening log file.
> Nov 26 20:36:23.000 [notice] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
> Nov 27 02:10:32.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 5:59 hours, with 41 circuits open. I've sent 406.63 MB and received 127.30 MB.
> Nov 27 02:10:32.000 [notice] Average packaged cell fullness: 96.772%. TLS write overhead: 96%
> ...

This message is normally logged at info level, unless the TLS write
overhead exceeds 15%. (Or the fullness drops below 80%.)

Perhaps your relay sent a lot of very small packets?
(Interactive protocols like chat and SSH could be responsible.)

T

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