On 29. Jul 2020, at 00:45, Matt Traudt <pastly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Guard flag conditions are
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n2640
Given you're Fast and Stable, and have a good advertised bandwidth and
weight, then I suspect you simply no longer have a Weighted Fractional
Uptime that is at least the median for "familiar" relays.
Thus just give it time.
This has nothing to do with volunteering to be a fallback directory mirror.
Thanks for running a relay, and for doing so at an unpopular provider.
On 7/28/20 9:29 AM, William Kane wrote:
Please discard the previous (empty) email, it was an error on my end.
Today, I noticed that my guard flag has been taken away:
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/47E1157F7DA6DF80EC00D745D73ACD7B0A380BCF
Does this have to do with the recent two, major downtime's of the relay?
While I wasn't monitoring the server, the kernel decided (or rather
oom-killer did) to reap the tor process for consuming too much memory
(keep in mind, this is a virtual machine with only 1GB of RAM which
running another daemon consuming about ~92MB's of RAM).
I promptly restarted the relay, but the same thing happened again yesterday.
So today, I manually set a lower MaxMemInQueues value instead of
letting Tor calculate one for me - 640MB's instead of 732MB's.
Still, I am confused as for why the guard flag has been taken away - I
recently opted in to be a fallback directory mirror, does this have
anything to do with it?
The relay was stable and online for almost a year, so only 48 hours of
downtime shouldn't affect the variables qualifying a relay to become
and stay a guard that much?
If this is because of the directory mirror thing, then please take my
relay out of that pool - I want to stay a guard for a number of
reasons - mainly because my host is only hosting about 10 tor relays
unlike all the other big hosters that are commonly used - network
variety is very important or so I've been taught, especially when it
comes to guard relays.
If this is a mistake on Tor Project's end, I please ask for it to be
resolved - however, if it's the Directory Authorities disqualifying my
relay, then there's nothing to be done except to wait.
Greetings,
William Kane