Thanks; this was a really helpful reply; when the electricity goes off, one tends to check one's own plug rather than think the main transformer just died. Especially the capacity/latency part; I would never have gotten that by myself.
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On March 13, 2018 10:56 PM, teor <teor2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 13 Mar 2018, at 20:51, mytormail mytorm...@posteo.net wrote: > > > > I just doesn't feel right if donated capacity isn't used. > > Oh, but your relay's spare capacityis used. > > Just not the way you think. > > A congested relay is a slow and unstable relay. > > A relay with extra capacity has lower latency, and can deal with > > unexpected traffic peaks. > > We expect relays to use 30% - 60% of their capacity. > > But I think we'd like 10% - 20% for the best latency. > > Also, the network is still adjusting after the bandwidth authorities > > being down for a few days, and a million extra clients leaving the > > network. So it might take a few weeks for bandwidth to balance > > out. > > T > > tor-relays mailing list > > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays