[tor-relays] Relay Consensus Low

[teor]

Hi,

> On 1 Jun 2019, at 14:57, Matt Westfall <mwestfall at ecansol.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello thanks for the comments, I might do that, remove the limits, because it's self limiting by the 1 Gbps network port, so it can't use more than that anyway.

Following the instructions here:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/MyRelayIsSlow#TorNetworkLimits

It looks like your relay is limited by its own observed bandwidth.
(The observed bandwidth that your relay has seen itself using.)

So increasing the RelayBandwidthRate would be a good idea.


If your relay's observed bandwidth gets above 9 megabytes a second, your
relay will be limited by the bandwidth authorities' measurements. (The
median measurement for your relay is 8910 scaled kilobytes per second.)

https://consensus-health.torproject.org/consensus-health-2019-06-02-04-00.html#B1B10104EB72A1FBBF6687B05F1915D87D00DBDE


There might not be much you can do about this: Comcast has slow peering
with a large number of internet networks. And it looks like 4/6 of tor's
current bandwidth authorities are on those networks.

This isn't something Tor can fix: we can only measure the bandwidth that
Comcast is giving you. If Comcast has slow peering to US East and Europe,
then clients using your relay will be slow.

> I tried to run chutney tests to see what hardware supports but haven't quite figured out what the command line I should be using is.
> 
> Any help with that would be appreciated.

You're right, the README is more confusing than it needs to be.

Try:
./chutney/tools/test-network.sh --data $[10*1024*1024]

If a 10 MB transfer is too fast, try 100 MB.

I opened this ticket for us to fix our documentation:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30720

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