[tor-dev] onionoo.tpo hardly reachable

[nusenu]

>> onionoo is hardly reachable since about 17 hours ago.
> 
> Indeed.  For some reason Onionoo saw an increase in requests from 700 to
> 4000 per second 24 hours or so ago.
> 
> There's now a third host answering Onionoo requests from a local cache,
> so that might improve the situation.  (Thanks, weasel!)
> 
>> Is this only externally facing or will this also cause onionoo to miss
>> descriptors internally?
> 
> The former.  If the hourly updater is overloaded, it will simply run
> less often than once per hour.  But it won't miss any data.
> 
>> Any ETA on when this will improve?
> 
> It should be better now.  If it's still bad after the weekend, we'll
> make a new plan.

It got better after your email, but now it is back at 4 out of 5 atlas
searches running into a backend error message.

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