[tor-relays] Possible Connection Storm

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On April 25, 2022 5:50:57 PM UTC, Eddie <stunnel at attglobal.net> wrote:
>Checking my relays after being away for a few days, noticed that one of them was showing as Overloaded, which I've never seen in over a year's running.
>
>Looking in the logs, it looks like there was a huge increase in connections, which has now settled down and I'm no longer showing as overloaded.  Here's some relevant pieces:
>
>Apr 21 03:45:08.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 110 days 12:00 hours, wi
>th 6977 circuits open. I've sent 5236.04 GB and received 5121.19 GB. I've receiv
>ed 5232797 connections on IPv4 and 269395 on IPv6. I've made 2018765 connections
> with IPv4 and 580408 with IPv6.
>Apr 21 03:45:08.000 [notice] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 1901/1901
>TAP, 244943/244943 NTor.
>
>Apr 21 07:04:49.000 [warn] Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit
> creation requests! Please consider using the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config opti
>on or choosing a more restricted exit policy.
>
>Apr 21 09:45:08.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 110 days 18:00 hours, wi
>th 47998 circuits open. I've sent 5263.73 GB and received 5148.85 GB. I've recei
>ved 5244063 connections on IPv4 and 270025 on IPv6. I've made 2021914 connection
>s with IPv4 and 581488 with IPv6.
>Apr 21 09:45:08.000 [notice] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 1609/1609
>TAP, 6391488/6532508 NTor.
>
>Apr 21 15:45:08.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 111 days 0:00 hours, wit
>h 45439 circuits open. I've sent 5300.03 GB and received 5185.19 GB. I've receiv
>ed 5253283 connections on IPv4 and 270537 on IPv6. I've made 2024515 connections
> with IPv4 and 582464 with IPv6.
>Apr 21 15:45:08.000 [notice] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 467/467 TA
>P, 9937327/9984534 NTor.
>
>Is this anything I need to be concerned about, or is it just one of things that occasionally happens.
>
>Cheers.
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