-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 I am having a lot of trouble figuring out why my relay keeps showing as overloaded on the search page. I believe I have more than enough memory and cpu power to not be overloaded on hardware. My server internet connection is 10GB up/down unmetered. I cannot for the life of me figure out why the relay search page continuously tells me i am overloaded. Can someone assist me in troubleshooting this? Thank you. Pertinent hardware information is pasted below: output of /proc/meminfo: --[ BEGIN PASTE ]-- MemTotal: 65777296 kB MemFree: 63088388 kB MemAvailable: 63415088 kB Buffers: 180096 kB Cached: 736396 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 449428 kB Inactive: 1729304 kB Active(anon): 14552 kB Inactive(anon): 1292048 kB Active(file): 434876 kB Inactive(file): 437256 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB SwapTotal: 33520636 kB SwapFree: 33520636 kB Dirty: 236 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 1262300 kB Mapped: 273164 kB Shmem: 48592 kB KReclaimable: 94828 kB Slab: 204624 kB SReclaimable: 94828 kB SUnreclaim: 109796 kB KernelStack: 5040 kB PageTables: 9308 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 66409284 kB Committed_AS: 2374432 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 34348 kB VmallocChunk: 0 kB Percpu: 16384 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB ShmemHugePages: 0 kB ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB FileHugePages: 0 kB FilePmdMapped: 0 kB CmaTotal: 0 kB CmaFree: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB Hugetlb: 0 kB DirectMap4k: 332988 kB DirectMap2M: 7981056 kB DirectMap1G: 58720256 kB --[ END PASTE ]-- output of /proc/cpuinfo: --[ BEGIN PASTE ]-- processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 23 model : 113 model name : AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor stepping : 0 microcode : 0x8701021 cpu MHz : 2200.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 0 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 16 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif v_spec_ctrl umip rdpid overflow_recov succor smca sme sev sev_es bugs : sysret_ss_attrs spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass bogomips : 7202.22 TLB size : 3072 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro [13] [14] processor : 1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 23 model : 113 model name : AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor stepping : 0 microcode : 0x8701021 cpu MHz : 2200.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 1 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 2 initial apicid : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 16 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif v_spec_ctrl umip rdpid overflow_recov succor smca sme sev sev_es bugs : sysret_ss_attrs spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass bogomips : 7202.22 TLB size : 3072 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro [13] [14] processor : 2 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 23 model : 113 model name : AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor stepping : 0 microcode : 0x8701021 cpu MHz : 2200.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 2 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 4 initial apicid : 4 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 16 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs sk init wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsav eopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif v_spec_ctrl umip rdpid overflow_recov succor smca sme sev sev_es bugs : sysret_ss_attrs spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass bogomips : 7202.22 TLB size : 3072 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro [13] [14] processor : 3 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 23 model : 113 model name : AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor stepping : 0 microcode : 0x8701021 cpu MHz : 2199.014 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 4 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 8 initial apicid : 8 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 16 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs sk init wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsav eopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif v_spec_ctrl umip rdpid overflow_recov succor smca sme sev sev_es bugs : sysret_ss_attrs spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass bogomips : 7202.22 TLB size : 3072 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro [13] [14] processor : 4 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 23 model : 113 model name : AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor stepping : 0 microcode : 0x8701021 cpu MHz : 2200.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 5 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 10 initial apicid : 10 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 16 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs sk init wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsav eopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif v_spec_ctrl umip rdpid overflow_recov succor smca sme sev sev_es bugs : sysret_ss_attrs spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass bogomips : 7202.22 TLB size : 3072 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro [13] [14] processor : 5 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 23 model : 113 model name : AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor stepping : 0 microcode : 0x8701021 cpu MHz : 2200.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 6 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 12 initial apicid : 12 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 16 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs sk init wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsav eopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif v_spec_ctrl umip rdpid overflow_recov succor smca sme sev sev_es bugs : sysret_ss_attrs spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass bogomips : 7202.22 TLB size : 3072 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro [13] [14] processor : 6 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 23 model : 113 model name : AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor stepping : 0 microcode : 0x8701021 cpu MHz : 2200.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 0 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 16 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs sk init wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsav eopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif v_spec_ctrl umip rdpid overflow_recov succor smca sme sev sev_es bugs : sysret_ss_attrs spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass bogomips : 7202.22 TLB size : 3072 4K pages clflush size : 64 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro [13] [14] processor : 7 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 23 model : 113 model name : AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor stepping : 0 microcode : 0x8701021 cpu MHz : 2199.809 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 1 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 3 initial apicid : 3 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 16 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs sk init wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsav eopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif v_spec_ctrl umip rdpid overflow_recov succor smca sme sev sev_es bugs : sysret_ss_attrs spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass bogomips : 7202.22 TLB size : 3072 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro [13] [14] processor : 8 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 23 model : 113 model name : AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor stepping : 0 microcode : 0x8701021 cpu MHz : 2200.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 2 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 5 initial apicid : 5 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 16 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs sk init wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsav eopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif v_spec_ctrl umip rdpid overflow_recov succor smca sme sev sev_es bugs : sysret_ss_attrs spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass bogomips : 7202.22 TLB size : 3072 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro [13] [14] processor : 9 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 23 model : 113 model name : AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor stepping : 0 microcode : 0x8701021 cpu MHz : 2199.644 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 4 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 9 initial apicid : 9 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 16 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs sk init wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsav eopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif v_spec_ctrl umip rdpid overflow_recov succor smca sme sev sev_es bugs : sysret_ss_attrs spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass bogomips : 7202.22 TLB size : 3072 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro [13] [14] processor : 10 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 23 model : 113 model name : AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor stepping : 0 microcode : 0x8701021 cpu MHz : 2200.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 5 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 11 initial apicid : 11 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 16 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs sk init wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsav eopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif v_spec_ctrl umip rdpid overflow_recov succor smca sme sev sev_es bugs : sysret_ss_attrs spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass bogomips : 7202.22 TLB size : 3072 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro [13] [14] processor : 11 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 23 model : 113 model name : AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor stepping : 0 microcode : 0x8701021 cpu MHz : 2200.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 6 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 13 initial apicid : 13 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 16 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif v_spec_ctrl umip rdpid overflow_recov succor smca sme sev sev_es bugs : sysret_ss_attrs spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass bogomips : 7202.22 TLB size : 3072 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro [13] [14] --[END PASTE]-- ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, September 28th, 2021 at 11:31 AM, Gary C. New via tor-relays <tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David, > > This is exactly the type of information I was hoping for. You should make this an article and link it to the overloaded support page. > > I guess I assumed that Tor preformed external timeout monitoring apposed to relay reported resource monitoring. > > It's interesting that you mention loadbalancing Tor as that is precisely what my recent efforts have been geared toward. > > I'm fairly confident that my last overloaded state was due to migrating one of my Tor relay nodes onto a previously provisioned BotFarm node and forgetting to kill the existing bot processes; thus, having competing resources. I can confirm that when loadbalancing Tor relay nodes that the whole is only as good as the weakest link; thus, it's important to have identical Tor relay nodes to evenly distribute circuits and maintain consensus. > > In this paradigm, I was hoping to be able to define a timeout value associated with the overloaded state and tune the loadbalancer to redistribute to different upstream nodes should a Tor relay node reach such a value. However, it seems this is a moot point, after reading your summary of the reporting process. > > At present, I have the upstream, loadbalancing timeout values disabled and let the Tor nodes build or teardown circuits based on available resources per node. I do see spikes alternate through various nodes throughout the day. It would be nice to find an upstream timeout value to better manage those spikes. > > Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. > > Respectfully, > > Gary > > P.S. This is all being done on ASUSWRT-Merlin using AiMesh nodes, but isn't limited to that architecture. I hope to publish a tutorial, after ironing out all the kinks. > > On Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 7:01:04 AM MDT, David Goulet <dgoulet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 27 Sep (14:23:34), Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: > > > George, > > > The referenced support article provides recommendations as to what might be > > > causing the overloaded state, but it doesn't provide the metric(s) for how > > > Tor decides whether a relay is overloaded. I'm trying to ascertain the > > > later. I would assume the overloaded state metric(S) is/are a maximum > > > timeout value and/or reoccurrence value, etc. By knowing what the > > > overloaded state metric is, I can tune my Tor relay just short of it. Thank > > > you for your reply. Respectfully, > > Hi Gary! > > I'll try to answer the best I can from what we've have worked on for these > > overload metrics. > > Essentially, there few places within a Tor relay that we can easily notice an > > "overloaded" state. I'll list them and tell you how we decide: > > 1. Out-Of-Memory invocation > > Tor has its own OOM and it is invoked when 75% of the total memory tor > > thinks it can use is reached. Thus, let say tor thinks it can use 2GB in > > total then at 1.5GB of memory usage, it will start freeing memory. That, is > > considered an overload state. > > Now the real question here is what is the memory "tor thinks" it has. > > Unfortunately, it is not the greatest estimation but that is what it is. > > When tor starts, it will use MaxMemInQueues for that value or will look at > > the total RAM available on the system and apply this algorithm: > > if RAM >= 8GB { > > memory = RAM * 40% > > } else { > > memory = RAM * 75% > > } > > /* Capped. */ > > memory = min(memory, 8GB) -> [8GB on 64bit and 2GB on 32bit) > > /* Minimum value. */ > > memory = max(250MB, memory) > > Why we picked those numbers, I can't tell you that, these come from the very > > early days of the tor software and I can't tell you why. > > And so to avoid such overload state, clearly run a relay above 2GB of RAM on > > 64bit should be the bare minimum in my opinion. 4GB would be much much > > better. In DDoS circumstances, there is a whole lot of memory pressure. > > One keen observer can notice that this approach also has the problem that it > > doesn't shield tor from being called by the OS OOM itself. Reason is that > > because we take the total memory on the system when tor starts, if the > > overall system has many other applications running using RAM, we end up > > eating too much memory and the OS could OOM tor without tor even noticing > > memory pressure. Fortunately, this is not a problem affecting the overload > > status situation. > > 2. Onionskins processing > > Tor is sadly single threaded _except_ for when the "onion skins" are > > processed that is the cryptographic work that needs to be done on the famous > > "onion layers" in every circuits. > > For that we have a thread pool and outsource all of that work to that pool. > > It can happen that this pool starts dropping work due to back pressure and > > that in turn is an overload state. > > Why this can happen, essentially CPU pressure. If your server is running at > > capacity and it is not only your tor, then this is likely to trigger. > > 3. DNS Timeout > > This applies only to Exits. If tor starts noticing DNS timeouts, you'll get > > the overload flag. This might not be because your relay is overloaded in > > terms of resources but it signals a problem on the network. > > And DNS timeouts at the Exits are a _huge_ UX problem for tor users and so > > Exit operators really need to be on top of those to help. It is not clear > > with the overload line but at least if an operator notices the overload > > line, it can then investigate DNS timeouts in case there is no resources > > pressure. > > 4. TCP port exhaustion > > This should be extremely rare though. The idea about this one is that you > > ran out of TCP ports which is a range that is usually, on Linux, 32768-60999 > > and so having that many connections would lead to the overload state. > > However, I think (I might be wrong though) that nowadays this range is per > > source IP and not process wide so it would likely have to be deliberate from > > someone to put your relay in that state. > > There are two other overload lines that tor relay report: > > "overload-ratelimits" and "overload-fd-exhausted" but they are not used yet > > for the overload status on Metrics. But you can find them in your relay > > descriptor[0] if you are curious. > > They are about when your relay reaches its connection global limit too often > > and when your relay runs out of file descriptors. > > Hope this helps but overall as you can see, a lot of factor can influence > > these metrics and so the ideal ideal ideal situation for a tor relay is that > > it runs alone on a fairly good machine. Any kinds of pullback from a tor relay > > like being overloaded has cascading effects on the network both in terms of UX > > but also in terms of load balancing which tor is not yet very good at (but we > > are working on hard on making it much better!!). > > Cheers! > > David > > [0] > > https://collector.torproject.org/recent/relay-descriptors/server-descriptors/?C=M;O=D > > -- > > +7Xz1XCshqTyudrO7K4kGBEl+NghDNbqiTGYZpSOw4U= > > _______________________________________________ > > tor-relays mailing list > > tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: ProtonMail wnUEARYKAAYFAmFTUJgAIQkQ07hp34FMyg4WIQSgEMifmnN5ohFWvfnTuGnf gUzKDjtGAP0VaRiV4ZWyG5h1cjxAKHq4pV5j33cXbD92wHt9hSjIwgEAjoty wI1YdgZe3frT8wRj43Tm8MF/f2p/mytGzJHySAc= =aXqg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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