On Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 at 13:01, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Send tor-relays mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or > body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of tor-relays digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: lower relay through-put: consensus or throttling? > (Georg Koppen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 12:51:05 +0000 > From: Georg Koppen [email protected] > > Subject: [tor-relays] Re: lower relay through-put: consensus or > throttling? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: [email protected] > > Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; > protocol="application/pgp-signature"; > boundary="------------QI1vquvNwiOUwz7yMKJyMz29" > > Hello! > > code9n via tor-relays: > > > Hi, > > > > For the last 5 months or so my guard / middle relay ( > > 41D4F82AB54AE5C5FB8D3CD24B4FC84350EFEF03 ) has been moving about 8MB/sec > > each way which is lower than it had been doing for the 2 years up to that > > point - it had been averaging around 12MB/sec. > > > > There's been talk on this mailing list of northern European relays getting > > lower consensus weight recently. (Mine is hosted in the UK). > > > > When my vps was last coming up for annual re-payment I told the admins > > there (Hostworld) that I was maybe not going to renew my annual > > subscription and the relay's through-put went up to around 20MB/sec for a > > while - until I'd renewed. So they do boost / throttle to suit themselves. > > > Could you give us some dates about when you talked to the admins, when > you renewed etc. so we can try to look at the behavior of your relay > during that time and correlate those dates with drops/raises of its > consensus weight? > > > So my question is: Is my last few months lower efficacy likely due to Tor > > (consensus weight) or throttling by my vps provider? > > > I am not sure yet but I might be able to give you an educated guess > after looking closer at your relay's data with the help of the dates I > asked you about above. > > Georg > > > (It's not my settings in torrc, by the way, they're set way higher than is > > being used and are unchanged since the earlier, higher, through-put). > > > > Thanks, > > > > Pete > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tor-relays mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ... > Name: OpenPGP_signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 833 bytes > Desc: OpenPGP digital signature > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > ------------------------------ > > End of tor-relays Digest, Vol 176, Issue 1 > ****************************************** Hi Georg, re. relay: 41D4F82AB54AE5C5FB8D3CD24B4FC84350EFEF03 Thanks for the reply. I can see from my ticket logs with the vps provider that I alluded to stopping the vps service on 2024-11-11 in a ticket relating to a different subject. It looks like I paid for the annual subscription on the 2024-11-24 - the billing info is not too clear. Not sure why the last few months particularly should have a lower performance, though. Thanks for any insights. _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
