Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

[Silvia/Hiro <hiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ofc I meant you can reply off list.

On 9/27/21 11:16 AM, Silvia/Hiro wrote:
> Gary,
> 
> Replying off list.
> Can I know which one is your relay?
> We don't do user-agent detection.
> 
> Cheers,
> -hiro
> 
> On 9/26/21 4:27 AM, Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote:
>>  Hiro,
>> Presently, I'm seeing a similar issue. On my laptop, I'm observing an overloaded status for my relay. However, the same relay shows a green status on my phone.
>> Do you do any user-agent detection?
>> I'm still interested in those magic numbers, which determine whether a relay has reached an overloaded state.
>> Thank You.
>> Respectfully,
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>     On Saturday, September 25, 2021, 7:11:31 AM PDT, Silvia/Hiro <hiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  
>>  
>>  Hi,
>> I went back in history and tried to find out whenever your node
>> FriendlyExit1 was overloaded. I couldn't find the exact descriptor.
>>
>> One thing I can think of is that on the 22nd when I deployed this I
>> noticed a few typos in the code and had to make a second release. Maybe
>> something was cached for a while and you what you were accessing from
>> mobile was the buggy page.
>>
>> If it happens again there are two buttons at the end of the page where
>> you can see the latest server and extra-info descriptors. If you
>> download the server one you would be able to verify that there is a
>> "overload-general" field in there. If there isn't we have a bug :).
>>
>> Please let me know if this happens again.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -hiro
>>
>> On 9/24/21 2:39 PM, friendlyexitnode via tor-relays wrote:
>>> Hey hiro, thanks!
>>>
>>> I've also attached some screenshots too if it helps (sorry, I should have done that before). I had first noticed this around 3:45 PM CST on September 23.
>>>
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>>> On Friday, September 24th, 2021 at 4:47 AM, Silvia/Hiro <hiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 9/23/21 10:54 PM, friendlyexitnode via tor-relays wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This looks like an awesome feature! I super appreciate it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Random question though (and I'm the first to admit I may be doing something wrong), I notice that on Mobile it says my relays are overloaded however when I view it on a normal computer I don't get the overloaded indicator. I've tried refreshing multiple times but getting the same results. Is anyone seeing the same thing?
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> could you let me know when you accessed the page via mobile approximately?
>>>>
>>>> I'll try to check if any of your relays were overloaded in the past.
>>>>
>>>> When a node is overloaded the state is kept for 72 hours.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> -hiro
>>>>
>>>>> Family Members:
>>>>>
>>>>> F01E382DA524A57F2BFB3C4FF270A23D5CD3311D
>>>>>
>>>>> 623CCCC1A1370700DD03046A85D953D35CAB5C21
>>>>>
>>>>> F9A28AB71D7E4E446308641A556EA53BA55FCB50
>>>>>
>>>>> 23F74D581DE92AC59D3527DE4D448E036139D81E
>>>>>
>>>>> A00E900534DFF76371064C03714753EAF8B88820
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>>>>> On Thursday, September 23rd, 2021 at 8:39 AM, Silvia/Hiro hiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One of our goals with our current performance work is to reduce the
>>>>>>
>>>>>> overload of relays in the network. The implementation of proposal 328[1]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> a while back made different overload indicators available to relay
>>>>>>
>>>>>> operators and since a couple of weeks ago those can be tracked via
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Onionoo[2] as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As we know that a lot of our relay operators use relay search to check
>>>>>>
>>>>>> for the health of their relays, we have launched a new feature there,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> too, to help them know when their relays are overloaded.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When a relay is in the overloaded state we show an amber dot next to the
>>>>>>
>>>>>> relay nickname.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Currently we are counting between 50 and 80 overloaded relays and
>>>>>>
>>>>>> between 10 and 20 overloaded bridges.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The overloaded state is reached when one or many of the possible load
>>>>>>
>>>>>> metrics have been triggered. When this happens we show it for 72 hours
>>>>>>
>>>>>> after the relay has recovered [3]. Note, though, that not all of the
>>>>>>
>>>>>> exposed overload metrics are triggering the overload indicator on relay
>>>>>>
>>>>>> search yet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you noticed your relay is overloaded, please check the following
>>>>>>
>>>>>> support article to find out how you can recover to a "normal" state:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://support.torproject.org/relay-operators/relay-bridge-overloaded/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let us known how you find this new feature.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -hiro
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/328-relay-overload-report.md
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [2]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2021-August/003168.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [3] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n637
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