[tor-relays] middle relay connexions dropped in half

Tue Mar 13 22:46:51 UTC 2018

Yes, I have experienced the same thing; my throughput is slower as well.  Not only have I dropped from about 2,000 connexions to 1, 000; my rate has gone down as well:
     #vnstat -d
     02/21/2018    16.83 GiB |   16.59 GiB |   33.42 GiB |    3.24 Mbit/s
     02/22/2018    18.73 GiB |   18.49 GiB |   37.21 GiB |    3.61 Mbit/s
     02/23/2018    17.38 GiB |   17.20 GiB |   34.58 GiB |    3.36 Mbit/s
     02/24/2018    19.16 GiB |   18.94 GiB |   38.11 GiB |    3.70 Mbit/s
     02/25/2018    15.63 GiB |   15.48 GiB |   31.11 GiB |    3.02 Mbit/s
     02/26/2018    18.69 GiB |   18.49 GiB |   37.18 GiB |    3.61 Mbit/s
     02/27/2018    19.28 GiB |   19.07 GiB |   38.35 GiB |    3.72 Mbit/s
     02/28/2018    19.12 GiB |   18.92 GiB |   38.03 GiB |    3.69 Mbit/s
     03/01/2018    19.07 GiB |   18.92 GiB |   37.99 GiB |    3.69 Mbit/s
     03/02/2018    19.04 GiB |   18.89 GiB |   37.93 GiB |    3.68 Mbit/s
     03/03/2018    17.46 GiB |   17.22 GiB |   34.68 GiB |    3.37 Mbit/s
     03/04/2018    18.39 GiB |   18.16 GiB |   36.55 GiB |    3.55 Mbit/s
     03/05/2018    15.90 GiB |   15.82 GiB |   31.72 GiB |    3.08 Mbit/s
     03/06/2018    13.82 GiB |   13.83 GiB |   27.64 GiB |    2.68 Mbit/s
     03/07/2018    18.25 GiB |   18.09 GiB |   36.34 GiB |    3.53 Mbit/s
     03/08/2018    12.66 GiB |   12.64 GiB |   25.30 GiB |    2.46 Mbit/s
     03/09/2018    11.74 GiB |   11.74 GiB |   23.48 GiB |    2.28 Mbit/s
     03/10/2018    13.31 GiB |   13.32 GiB |   26.63 GiB |    2.59 Mbit/s

     03/12/2018    13.59 GiB |   13.64 GiB |   27.24 GiB |    2.64 Mbit/s

I switched to the newest dos mitigation version 0.3.2.10 on 03/05.
I also had an internet outage of about 10 hours 03/11, and got a new ip address, so this relay is not a good example, perhaps.
My thought was to leave things for another 2 weeks, and if I still have this lower throughput, then I will up the RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst settings, which has been my very rough way to attract more or fewer connexions.  I try to keep it under my ISP's radar at 1 T a month.

--Torix  

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On March 13, 2018 3:51 PM, mytormail <mytormail at posteo.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am curious if your relay is back on speed now.
> 
> I experience the same thing. Since the latest update my two "fast"
> 
> relay's (around 5100KB) have now dropped to half the speed and seem to
> 
> go slower as time goes by. Processor is hardly used, memory is no issue,
> 
> logs seem okay. My other two relay's where a bit slower already and
> 
> didn't change much in that regard.
> 
> I just doesn't feel right if donated capacity isn't used. Maybe I have
> 
> to wait it out a bit longer, hence my question.
> 
> Edwin.
> 
> On 11.03.2018 03:50, torix at protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Dear All,
> > 
> > On March 5 I changed to the newest version 3.2.10 on a middle relay I
> > 
> > run. I went away for a few days, checked today, and found that my
> > 
> > traffic is down, and my connexions, which were around 2,000 since
> > 
> > December, are now about 1,000. Consensus weight is still the same
> > 
> > (about 450) as it has been before. And my throughput is down from
> > 
> > 35G/day, hitting that max most days to about 23-26G/day.
> > 
> > Don't know if this is because it is a better Tor and is filtering out
> > 
> > extra crap now or not, but just thought I'd mention it, as the Tor
> > 
> > version is the only thing that changed.
> > 
> > --Torix
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