Fwd: Re: Read/Write balance in torstatus graphs

[Karsten Loesing <karsten.loesing@xxxxxxx>]

And forwarding Geoff's other reply to tor-relays:


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Read/Write balance in torstatus graphs
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:28:29 +0100
From: Geoff Down <geoffdown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: karsten.loesing@xxxxxxx

Fixed it - an orphaned process repeatedly trying to connect to a
non-existent domain.
Thanks.

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:52 +0200, "Karsten Loesing"
<karsten.loesing@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/13/10 10:18 PM, Geoff Down wrote:
> > when I'm operating a middleman relay and not using Tor as a client,
> > shouldn't the Read and Write graphs as produced by
> > torstatus.blutmagie.de be the same? I have about 17000 Bytes/s Reads
> > when Writes have dropped to zero.
> 
> Interesting. Here's a thought: There are a few cases when relays put
> wrong dates in their {write,read}-history lines. It could be that your
> relay got the write-history line wrong and Tor Status doesn't display
> that data because the date is wrong. See
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1926 . Can you look up
> your relay descriptor at
> https://metrics.torproject.org/relay-search.html and see if this is the
> case?
> 
> Typically, relays write a few more bytes than they read, most likely
> because they're answering directory requests. See the last graph on
> https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html .
> 
> Best,
> --Karsten
> 

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