[tor-relays] Consensus Weight Dropping/Authority Issues?

[r1610091651]

Consensus & usage are independent
consensus: based on available bandwidth
load: based on usage by tor clients.

if total available bw increases but load doesn't, observed load on a node
will drop.

On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 17:27, John Ricketts <john at quintex.com> wrote:

> I also would like to add to this - if it were just the Tor network
> increasing in size I could see my consensus weight dropping and my
> bandwidth staying the same.  I'm simply not getting the 7-8gbit/sec traffic
> I was.  Truly odd.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tor-relays <tor-relays-bounces at lists.torproject.org> On Behalf Of
> Toralf Förster
> Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 7:30 AM
> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight Dropping/Authority Issues?
>
> On 1/7/20 1:57 PM, John Ricketts wrote:
> > I have been watching the consensus weight and bandwidth of all of my 50
> exit nodes drop consistently over the past few months. I have not made any
> hardware changes in my data center
>
>
> Which correlates to https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html - your
> fraction just decreases if more and more relays join the party.
>
> --
> Toralf
>
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