Re: tor relays and network status pages

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 05:32:35PM +0100, startx wrote:
> we started running two relays (again) very recently (for now low
> bandwith, we are still learning) and i was wondering
> why the tor status pages show such differrent information about the
> nodes: (nodes are "kiu" and "savide")
> 
> i compared http://torstatus.kgprog.com/  and
> http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ and while kgprog shows both our relays
> with a bandwith around "72" while blutmagie shows "0".
> 
> also the observed band with is very different, e.g.
> 
> savide ( blutmagie) 15360 / 20480 / 87
> savide ( kgprog ) 15360 / 20480 / 74729
> 
> the last one seems much closer to the /var/live/tor/state information.
> 
> this hasnt changed during the last days.

See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/May-2010/msg00081.html

It's quite reasonable to think that your relay is pushing 87 bytes on
average -- your choice of 15KB rate means that the relay isn't fast
enough to get the Fast flag, which means most clients ignore it.

--Roger