Re: [tor-relays] excessive bandwidth assigned bandwidth-limited exit relay

[Dhalgren Tor <dhalgren.tor@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Moritz Bartl <moritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/01/2015 06:28 PM, Dhalgren Tor wrote:
>> This relay appears to have the same problem:
>> sofia
>> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/7BB160A8F54BD74F3DA5F2CE701E8772B841859D
>
> This is one of ours, and works just fine and the way it's supposed to?

Certainly 'sofia' is working well enough, but it's clearly spending
much if it's time at or somewhat above the configured rate-limit in
terms of load.  This is sub-optimal for end-user latency because the
relay delays traffic to enforce the rate limit.  On this relay
BandwidthBurst is unconfigured and perhaps setting it to the same
value as BandwidthRate will cause the authorities to slightly lower
the rating and eliminate the saturated state.

> Your 18000000 is quite near the 16.5 MByte/s it is currently pushing
> since you must have changed something on Sept 26/27, so I don't really
> see the issue.

You are overlooking TCP/IP protocol bytes which add between 5 and 13%
to the data and are considered billable traffic by providers.  At 18M
it's solidly over 100TB, at 16.5M it will consume 97TB in 31 days.

>As said before in this thread, the consensus weight is a
> unitless unit that is relative to the rest of the network and of no
> 'external significance'.

YES I understand this.  Nowhere do I say I expect the consensus weight
to correspond directly to BandwidthRate.  What I SAID is that ,based
on comparative observation, the Dhalgren relay should be rated around
65000 to effect an approximate 90% utilization of the 18M limit.  THIS
is supposedly the intended design objective of the bandwidth
allocation system.

> If my quick calculation isn't off, 18000000 gives you 42.4TB per
> direction, which means your relay will stay below the projected 100TB limit.

Add TCP/IP overhead.  I am looking at the service provider bandwidth
consumption graph when determining the setting as well as including
TCP/IP overhead in calculations.

> How exactly do you determine that you see "too many connections"? Do you
> have any errors in the Tor log?

I determine this by

1) watching the service provider bandwidth graph

2) watching the output of "SETEVENTS BW" on a control channel and
observing that every sample shows the relay is flat-line saturated at
BandwidthRate.

3) observing that statistics show elevated cell-queuing delays when
the relay has been in the saturated state, e.g.

cell-queued-cells 2.59,0.11,0.01,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00
cell-time-in-queue 107,25,3,3,4,3,7,4,1,7

4) explicitly browsing through the relay utilizing "SETCONF
ExitNodes=" and observing that latency is at minimum degraded and is
sometimes terrible when the relay is overrated/saturated, while on the
other hand latency is extraordinarily good when the relay is not in a
saturated / rate-limited state.
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