[tor-relays] Re: tor-relays Digest, Vol 176, Issue 1

[code9n via tor-relays <tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 at 13:01, tor-relays-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <tor-relays-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> 1. Re: lower relay through-put: consensus or throttling?
> (Georg Koppen)
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> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 12:51:05 +0000
> From: Georg Koppen gk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Subject: [tor-relays] Re: lower relay through-put: consensus or
> throttling?
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> Hello!
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> code9n via tor-relays:
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> > Hi,
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> > For the last 5 months or so my guard / middle relay ( 41D4F82AB54AE5C5FB8D3CD24B4FC84350EFEF03 ) has been moving about 8MB/sec each way which is lower than it had been doing for the 2 years up to that point - it had been averaging around 12MB/sec.
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> > There's been talk on this mailing list of northern European relays getting lower consensus weight recently. (Mine is hosted in the UK).
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> > When my vps was last coming up for annual re-payment I told the admins there (Hostworld) that I was maybe not going to renew my annual subscription and the relay's through-put went up to around 20MB/sec for a while - until I'd renewed. So they do boost / throttle to suit themselves.
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> Could you give us some dates about when you talked to the admins, when
> you renewed etc. so we can try to look at the behavior of your relay
> during that time and correlate those dates with drops/raises of its
> consensus weight?
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> > So my question is: Is my last few months lower efficacy likely due to Tor (consensus weight) or throttling by my vps provider?
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> I am not sure yet but I might be able to give you an educated guess
> after looking closer at your relay's data with the help of the dates I
> asked you about above.
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> Georg
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> > (It's not my settings in torrc, by the way, they're set way higher than is being used and are unchanged since the earlier, higher, through-put).
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> > Thanks,
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> > Pete
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Hi Georg,

re.  relay:  41D4F82AB54AE5C5FB8D3CD24B4FC84350EFEF03

  Thanks for the reply.  I can see from my ticket logs with the vps provider that I alluded to stopping the vps service on 2024-11-11 in a ticket relating to a different subject.  It looks like I paid for the annual subscription on the 2024-11-24 - the billing info is not too clear. Not sure why the last few months particularly should have a lower performance, though.

  Thanks for any insights.
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