I already explained this to you - from my own experience in running tor relays (8+ years) it can take 6 months up to 1 year until the relays are fully used, and some relays for some reason just never ramp up properly for various reasons.
2020-08-06 16:13 GMT, Neel Chauhan <[email protected]>: > Hi network-health@/tor-relays@ mailing lists, > > I noticed one thing: Tor relays on the West Coast US (and Canada) are > generally slower than those on say the East Coast and in Europe. > > I moved to the West Coast this January, but this was not an issue in the > past when looking at dedicated servers I had from the West Coast prior > to this year. > > These are two middle relay instances on an Gigabit FTTH connection (Wave > G in Redmond, WA): > > https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/B0F9BA27944FA59E3B1A182208FF7C0CFF5497B2 > https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/DB710B14D7329B7289CFCC547F48EF53F812C40D > > The Consensus Weight often is slower than the Advertised Bandwidth, and > isn't ramping up despite having lots of bandwidth. I set > RelayBandwidthRate to about 500 Mbps on each instance. > > This isn't just a Wave G problem, this affects almost every relay in the > West Coast including other Gigabit ISPs such as AT&T (AS7018) and Sonic > (AS46375), as well as hosting companies and colocation facilities. > > For instance, my Los Angeles-based Exit relays at Psychz Networks > (AS40676) show this issue (however they are new): > > https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/156AAC3FAD1ACC8906316519DCB444B8C77E4EBF > https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/A69CEB30328B1E85C6B167FECAF2F509CBD9517F > > Even Emerald Onion has this issue: > > https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/09DCA3360179C6C8A5A20DDDE1C54662965EF1BA > > What is causing this issue and is there a solution? Is it backbone > congestion due to COVID-19? The high load on dirauths? sbws regressions? > > Can I help fix this issue? I am a Core Tor contributor and am open to > also working on sbws. > > Is there a way to optimize my relays (they run FreeBSD). > > -Neel > > === > > https://www.neelc.org/ > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
