[tor-relays] decrease in traffic

Stephane Thevenot stephane at thevenot.org
Mon Oct 23 21:42:08 UTC 2017


I'm not trhotling VPS when renting them :) for real !! 

BTW is the atlas webserver running ? database backend problem ?    

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Le 2017-10-23 17:34, s7r a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> Trey Nolen wrote: 
> 
>> I'm new to running a Tor relay and started one about a month ago.   I've
>> got 50 Mbps dedicated to it and at first it climbed in traffic pretty
>> steadily until it got to around 25-30 Mbps being used.   Since then, it
>> has declined steadily and is down to about 350 KBps now (yes, I'm
>> keeping the units straight).
>> 
>> My node is a single core VPS running 3.2GHz and with 1GB RAM. 
>> Currently, top shows tor as using about 15% of the memory.  When it was
>> churning out at the maximum rate it got to, the CPU was pretty
>> hammered.  I was considering allocating another core, but there is no
>> need anymore as it is hovering around 7% usage.  
>> 
>> The server is running on Ubuntu 16.04.3 and I'm running 0.3.1.7 tor.
>> 
>> Am I doing something wrong to result in the decrease in traffic?  Any
>> advice is appreciated.
>> 
>> Trey Nolen
> 
> First of all, thanks for running a relay.
> 
> Based on my experience, what usually happens is that the provider of
> your VPS observed during a period of time you used more than N mbps
> constantly and all the time, so they capped your VPS at some KB/s limit.
> There are performance monitoring scripts that could do this
> automatically. A virtual private server shares the network card of the
> host with the other VPSes on that host, so almost all providers do not
> allow you to use it all by yourself all the time for long periods. You
> can open a ticket upstream and they will confirm if this is the case or not.
> 
> Nothing you can do about this unfortunately, most providers do this,
> even the ones they say they don't do it :) Only thing you can do is get
> a dedicated server with guaranteed bandwidth, or try to convince them to
> at least lift your the limitation for your VPS to 1mbps.
> 
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