Based on both your suggestions, I stopped a resource-intensive job that was running, and also "reniced" Tor to give it priority. Since then, I haven't encountered more "resource unresponsive" warnings.
Thanks for your help! On 6/8/20 4:38 PM, mpan wrote: >> I keep getting NYX_NOTICEs about "Relay unresponsive". They happen every >> few hours, and last for minutes or sometimes a couple of hours before I get >> a "relay resumed" message. > As Damian Johnson has said, it is hard to guess the cause without more > clues. But keep in mind that 2MB/s with 7k connections puts a > considerable load on the operating system. Are you sure it’s not your > machine that is limiting performance of your relay? That could cause > temporary, short lockups, preventing nyx from receiving notifications > from the relay in time and considering it unresponsive. > > That’s my guess after seeing that your average traffic hovers under > 200kB/s. This alone does not indicate any problems with your > configuration yet, because it’s also a matter of how much connections > you actually receive. But together with the “Relay unresponsive” warning > it reminds me of what I see when my own node is experiencing hiccups > during high load from other sources. > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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