Re: URGENT: patch needed ASAP for authority bug

[Jon <torance.ca@xxxxxxxxx>]

I also have to agree with both Scott and CyberRax. There are some of
us that do run a relay from home. This also varies in bandwidth usage
from user to user and availability.

In the past week, I have gone from network crashing to Vidalia
freezing and locking up. In further looking to find and try to
understand why, I was able to determine my connections had gone from
1500+ inbound up to as of 10 min ago, 5100+ and the out bound
connections from 2162 to down to 1300+..

Two days ago they were running from 6500+ inb / 1200+ ob.  This is a
very unusal increase for me. Also looking at teh connections, I was
bale to see multiple of same ip addys, with different ports,
connecting to my ip and the in and out put was both 62k. As far as I
can tell most of those connections were send and recieve in the 62k
-65k range.

This is also unusal as when I have looked in the past, the majority of
the connections were rarely from the same ip, and most of the
connections were having various in and out kb's send and recieve
numbers.

Not sure what has changed, but I , along with some of the others that
have had the same excessive recent connections, which seem to over
load vidalia / tor.

I hope we can get some answers asap.

btw: i am running on  Win Svr 2008


Thanks,


Jon

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:40 AM, CyberRax <cyberrax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- On Fri, 16/4/10, Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [...]
>>  If relay operators discover that they can't limit consumption by tor of
>> one or more resources anymore, they may choose, or even be forced to
>> choose, to stop running them at all.
>> [...]
>
> Got to agree on this one. I myself am a representative of "home operator" class, ie those who don't have a dedicated high capacity server set up for their relay but rather run it on a limited home line behind a router. The past few days I've been messing around with the problem that even the 64kB main/80kB burst values in my TORRC are enough to get 3500+ connections which simply glog up the router. Now, I'm willing to mess around with the problem (currently have fixed it with server downtime, hogging the uplink with various other things and limiting available file descriptors to 2048, the latter causing occasional complaints from Tor that it's not possible to write to the state file), but how many newcomers (who one day might set up another blutmagie) are up to that? They might be excited about the project, but as soon as they discover that the result of running a relay is the crash of their router, and there isn't really anything they can do about it
>  except getting a second connection, they'll simply stop being a relay. One of the main reasons Tor has been so successful is the fact that even home users can run a relay...
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