[tor-relays] Node families and guard flags

Green Dream greendream848 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 19:21:00 UTC 2016


The Advertised Bandwidth is is significantly lower on TorRelay02HORUS
too. Let me quote teor from another recent thread, I think the same
info is helpful here:

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Your relay reports a bandwidth based on the amount of traffic it has
sustained in any 10 second period over the past day.
You can also set a maximum advertised bandwidth on your relay. (Don't
do this if you're trying to pick up more traffic.)
Five bandwidth authorities measure each relay each week, and report
how fast it is.
Each of these factors can restrict the amount of bandwidth that the
network assigns to your relay.

Here's one way of testing what your relay is capable of:

Run a Tor client as close to your relay as possible:
tor DataDirectory /tmp/tor.$$ SOCKSPort [IPv4:]10000 EntryNodes your-relay-name

Then download a large file using port 10000 as a socks proxy.

That will give you some idea of how much traffic your relay can
sustain, but it's worth noting that each client is limited to about 1
Mbps (I think - I can't find the manual page entry).

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>From a quick glance, it seems that TorRelay02HORUS just isn't
providing the same bandwidth as TorRelay01HORUS. There could be many
reasons for this, including hardware, other nodes on the same network
rack at your host, upstream bandwidth for the datacenter, peering
between the node and the bandwidth authorities, etc.

None of this is unusual. As I have said many times, when spinning up
new relays, I often find it helpful to bring up many at the same time
(ideally using automation like Ansible), find which ones perform best,
keep those and tear down the others.


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