[tor-relays] Measuring the Accuracy of Tor Relays' Advertised Bandwidths

teor teor at riseup.net
Mon Aug 26 21:58:34 UTC 2019


> On 27 Aug 2019, at 05:19, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/26/19 3:14 AM, teor wrote:
>> We expect to have funding to fix these bugs some time in the next month
>> or two.
> 
> So I'll just wait.

Waiting might not help, if the issue is on your relay:

>> I don't think the sbws bandwidth authorities are causing the issue that
>> you're seeing with your consensus weight or flags.
>> 
>> The consensus is based on majority votes, and 2/6 bandwidth authorities
>> or 2/9 authorities are not a majority.


> FWIW I set "RelayBandwidthRate  30 MBytes" for a day or so to see whether a possible overload of the my relays could cause some trouble but did not see any positive effect so far.

Perhaps your provider is dropping traffic, or has bad peering?

T


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