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

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Tue Jan 7 18:45:21 UTC 2020



> On 7. Jan 2020, at 18:20, r1610091651 <r1610091651 at telenet.be> wrote:
> 
> 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.

We are talking about Exists.

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> On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 17:27, John Ricketts <john at quintex.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html> - your fraction just decreases if more and more relays join the party.
> 
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> Toralf
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