[tor-relays] Questions about Tor consensus weight & swag

[trinity pointard]

Hi,

You shouldn't worry too much about your relay sometime appearing as
overloaded. Sadly due to the ongoing network ddos, many relays show up
that way. You shouldn't restart your relay daily, that would make everybody
think it's not very stable, so you won't be able to get flags such as Stable,
Guard or HSDir. In general to get a higher consensus weight, you need to
have higher throughput, if your relay sometimes shows as overloaded, there
is probably limited headroom for improvement.

I think the speed requirement was decided a very long time ago and wasn't
ever updated. It's 0.5MByte/s (=4Mbps) for non exit relays, and half as much
for exit ones. I guess not too many people are asking for tshirts, so having it
that low isn't an issue for the people handling that. Running means first time,
little over a dozen relays have not been restarted in the last 6 months. In
general you should try to keep your relay be up to date, which necessarily
imply a restart once in a while.

Best,
trinity-1686a


On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 at 11:43, shruub via tor-relays
<tor-relays at lists.torproject.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> so my relay regulary gets overloaded, for what I can only assume is an
> hardware issue, (which I can't upgrade rn) since I already applied the
> tor anti ddos scripts. It seems to be able to recover, however with a
> lower Consensus Weight. I also (stupidly) tried to have a cron restarting
> my tor daemon daily which also resulted in the latter. So I wonder, if
> there is any way to have a relay run more stable and I suppose with a
> somewhat higher consensus weight (I can only asssume making some further
> changes in advertising bandwidth etc.
>
> My second question(s) is/are concerning the tor swag (I hope that's
> allowed to ask here). Firstly, what is the actual Speed requirement? In
> the tor ecosystem, every unit is MBs, and only on the swag site its KBs.
> But if my calculations are correct, 500KBs = 500000Bs = 0.5MBs which
> doesn't really make sence, imo(but I probably misscalculated somewhere).
> Secondly, does running mean it's uptime (aka Last Restarted) or the Time
> it was first seen?
>
> Sorry for the wall of text for not much information, and thanks a lot in
> advance for your replies!
>
> Best,
> shruub
>
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