[tor-relays] Advertised Bandwidth vs. RelayBandwidthRate

[teor]

Hi,

> On 7 Apr 2020, at 19:56, petrarca at protonmail.ch wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello all - I see a constant mismatch of my relay regarding the Advertised Bandwidth vs. the defined and available RelayBandwidthRate.
> 
> Tor metrics usually only shows around 1.3 MiB/s as Advertised Bandwidth (Bandwidth rate: 3 MiB/s, Bandwidth burst: 6 MiB/s).
> 
> The torrc config defines:
> RelayBandwidthRate  24 Mbit
> RelayBandwidthBurst 48 Mbit
> 
> So everything looks fine, except the Advertised Bandwidth seems to be too low. Fingerprint is 605EE4375EE4C38215C8949F5808863749FD4F4A and there is plenty of bandwidth available (1 Gbps link). The connection is up-and-running perfectly fine without any issues or interruptions for at least a month.
> 
> Any idea, why the Advertised Bandwidth is so low?

On Relay Search, the Advertised Bandwidth is made up of 3 different bandwidths.

For your relay, they are:
Bandwidth rate: 3 MiB/s
Bandwidth burst: 6 MiB/s
Observed bandwidth: 1.3 MiB/s

You can see these details by clicking on the Advertised Bandwidths figure on:
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/605EE4375EE4C38215C8949F5808863749FD4F4A

The observed bandwidth is the maximum bandwidth peak your relay has seen. It's updated each day.

Tor is a low latency network, so it's normal for relays to be loaded at 10-50% of their capacity. (Congestion increases latency.)

If you'd like your relay to get more traffic, please increase your RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst.

T


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