[tor-relays] Should I worry about sudden swings in connection numbers to my relay?

[torix at protonmail.com]

Dear List,

One of my exits, which has been up for 6 months now with an average of 2000 to 4000 connections, since yesterday has been jumping up to 10,000, 8,000, then back to 3500 or so. My history is a simple test file of date and connection numbers taken every 5 minutes:
Sun Jan 3 07:20:00 MSK 2021
3233
Sun Jan 3 07:25:00 MSK 2021
3342
Sun Jan 3 07:30:00 MSK 2021
9679
Sun Jan 3 07:35:00 MSK 2021
3455
Sun Jan 3 07:40:00 MSK 2021
6800
Sun Jan 3 07:45:00 MSK 2021
3402
Sun Jan 3 07:50:00 MSK 2021
3346
Sun Jan 3 07:55:00 MSK 2021
3355
Sun Jan 3 08:00:00 MSK 2021
3358
Sun Jan 3 08:05:00 MSK 2021
10067
Sun Jan 3 08:10:00 MSK 2021
3343
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TIA,

--Torix

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