[tor-relays] Consensus Weight Definiton

[torix at protonmail.com]

Dear Keifer,

I run a small relay at home as well.  (I've never had more than 4,000/4,500 connections, and my home router seems to have had no problem.)  However, guessing from the tor docs on my ISP that I should keep my monthly throughput to 1TB or so, I put some daily bandwidth limits on it.  Before the dos mitigation came out a couple of months ago, I would hit the limits every other day or so, and my relay would shut down until midnight.  So I never had a stable flag for months, and still had plenty of traffic.  

HTH,

--torix


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On April 22, 2018 2:05 PM, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you. However another thing that is confusing me a little is that based off of my research, relays without the stable flag shouldn’t recurve much traffic; mine says it’s received a few gigabytes since the downtime 1 day ago. Thank you. It is acceptable not to have the stable flag and still be useful to the network correct? Thank you very much.
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> On Apr 22, 2018, at 10:39 AM, Valter Jansons valter.jansons at gmail.com wrote:
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> > > I guess not every relay has the stable flag, would be curious to know what the general percentage is
> > 
> > You can check with Tor Metrics how many relays have the Running
> > 
> > flag and how many have the Stable flag. By looking at the graph I
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> > would estimate around 80% of Running relays have the Stable flag right
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> > now.
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> > -- 4096R/A83CE748 Valters Jansons
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