[tor-relays] Advertised Bandwidth vs. RelayBandwidthRate

[petrarca at protonmail.ch]

So, could it be that there is just a wording issue on tor-metrics - to me "observed" and "advertised" bandwidth are two different things but they seem to be the same on tor-metrics. I think I do understand the observed bw, however, still struggle to understand the advertised bw.

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On Tuesday, 7. April 2020 23:13, teor <teor at riseup.net> wrote:

> 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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