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

[shruub]

Feb 18, 2023 12:31:31 trinity pointard 'trinity.pointard at gmail.com' 
<obsvj67j+tor-relays=lists.torproject.org at 4wrd.cc>:

> 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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> 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.
Ironically, I've got all of these flags, might have gottem them 
afterwards I suppose.
> It's 0.5MByte/s (=4Mbps)
Alright. It's interesting that this hasn't been abused (ig the tor 
community are just nice people :D)

Anyways, thanks for your reply!