[tor-relays] Guard flag got removed after only 48 hours of downtime.

[Matt Traudt]

The Guard flag conditions are
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n2640

Given you're Fast and Stable, and have a good advertised bandwidth and
weight, then I suspect you simply no longer have a Weighted Fractional
Uptime that is at least the median for "familiar" relays.

Thus just give it time.

This has nothing to do with volunteering to be a fallback directory mirror.

Thanks for running a relay, and for doing so at an unpopular provider.

On 7/28/20 9:29 AM, William Kane wrote:
> Please discard the previous (empty) email, it was an error on my end.
> 
> Today, I noticed that my guard flag has been taken away:
> 
> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/47E1157F7DA6DF80EC00D745D73ACD7B0A380BCF
> 
> Does this have to do with the recent two, major downtime's of the relay?
> 
> While I wasn't monitoring the server, the kernel decided (or rather
> oom-killer did) to reap the tor process for consuming too much memory
> (keep in mind, this is a virtual machine with only 1GB of RAM which
> running another daemon consuming about ~92MB's of RAM).
> 
> I promptly restarted the relay, but the same thing happened again yesterday.
> 
> So today, I manually set a lower MaxMemInQueues value instead of
> letting Tor calculate one for me - 640MB's instead of 732MB's.
> 
> Still, I am confused as for why the guard flag has been taken away - I
> recently opted in to be a fallback directory mirror, does this have
> anything to do with it?
> 
> The relay was stable and online for almost a year, so only 48 hours of
> downtime shouldn't affect the variables qualifying a relay to become
> and stay a guard that much?
> 
> If this is because of the directory mirror thing, then please take my
> relay out of that pool - I want to stay a guard for a number of
> reasons - mainly because my host is only hosting about 10 tor relays
> unlike all the other big hosters that are commonly used - network
> variety is very important or so I've been taught, especially when it
> comes to guard relays.
> 
> If this is a mistake on Tor Project's end, I please ask for it to be
> resolved - however, if it's the Directory Authorities disqualifying my
> relay, then there's nothing to be done except to wait.
> 
> Greetings,
> William Kane
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