[tor-talk] Performance of Tor networks degrades

[Rick]

On 02/16/2014 05:25 AM, tor-admin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the metrics page shows that the performance of the Tor network degraded during
> the last 7 days from around 1.5 sec per 50kb towards 2 secs to complete a 50kb
> request:
>
> https://metrics.torproject.org/performance.html?graph=torperf&start=2013-02-18&end=2014-02-16&source=all&filesize=50kb#torperf
>
> Does anyone has a explanation?
>
> Regards,
>
> Torland
>
Weather maybe? The period roughly coincides with some pretty tough times 
across the entire eastern US. My little exit relay hardly affects the 
metrics but I was down for 4 days with no electricity. Perhaps some 
more-significant assets were affected?

Rick