[tor-relays] West Coast US Tor Relays Slow - Low Consensus Weight versus East Coast

[William Kane]

I already explained this to you - from my own experience in running
tor relays (8+ years) it can take 6 months up to 1 year until the
relays are fully used, and some relays for some reason just never ramp
up properly for various reasons.

2020-08-06 16:13 GMT, Neel Chauhan <neel at neelc.org>:
> Hi network-health@/tor-relays@ mailing lists,
>
> I noticed one thing: Tor relays on the West Coast US (and Canada) are
> generally slower than those on say the East Coast and in Europe.
>
> I moved to the West Coast this January, but this was not an issue in the
> past when looking at dedicated servers I had from the West Coast prior
> to this year.
>
> These are two middle relay instances on an Gigabit FTTH connection (Wave
> G in Redmond, WA):
>
> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/B0F9BA27944FA59E3B1A182208FF7C0CFF5497B2
> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/DB710B14D7329B7289CFCC547F48EF53F812C40D
>
> The Consensus Weight often is slower than the Advertised Bandwidth, and
> isn't ramping up despite having lots of bandwidth. I set
> RelayBandwidthRate to about 500 Mbps on each instance.
>
> This isn't just a Wave G problem, this affects almost every relay in the
> West Coast including other Gigabit ISPs such as AT&T (AS7018) and Sonic
> (AS46375), as well as hosting companies and colocation facilities.
>
> For instance, my Los Angeles-based Exit relays at Psychz Networks
> (AS40676) show this issue (however they are new):
>
> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/156AAC3FAD1ACC8906316519DCB444B8C77E4EBF
> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/A69CEB30328B1E85C6B167FECAF2F509CBD9517F
>
> Even Emerald Onion has this issue:
>
> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/09DCA3360179C6C8A5A20DDDE1C54662965EF1BA
>
> What is causing this issue and is there a solution? Is it backbone
> congestion due to COVID-19? The high load on dirauths? sbws regressions?
>
> Can I help fix this issue? I am a Core Tor contributor and am open to
> also working on sbws.
>
> Is there a way to optimize my relays (they run FreeBSD).
>
> -Neel
>
> ===
>
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