Hi,

I am fairly new to Tor and have been running a relay for a couple of weeks.

I have configured a RelayBandwithRate of only 100 KB and so only see a few active connections at any one time.

Recently I have been noticing, in netstat output, a high level of established but idle TCP connections to other tor-hosts.

(Out of 96 ESTABLISHED connections there are 90 with Recv-Q & Send-Q of 0.)

Is this part of the rolling connection set of this host or something else?

Eg:

#netstat -e

Active Internet connections (w/o servers)

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State User Inode

...

tcp 0 0 my.ip:55528 digi00299.digicube:9001 ESTABLISHED tor 449100

tcp 0 0 my.ip:56308 tor01.spacedump.ne:9001 ESTABLISHED tor 440912

tcp 0 0 my.ip:57934 torsrvo.snydernet:https ESTABLISHED tor 443309

tcp 0 0 my.ip:9001 tor18.anonymizer.:57588 TIME_WAIT root 0

tcp 0 0 my.ip:46943 tor.parad0x.org:https ESTABLISHED tor 449313

tcp 0 0 my.ip:9001 vodka.projekt16.b:51520 ESTABLISHED tor 449337

tcp 0 0 my.ip:9001 gamma.rueckgr.at:39215 ESTABLISHED tor 449218

tcp 0 0 my.ip:44622 dannenberg.ccc.de:https ESTABLISHED tor 431598

tcp 0 0 my.ip:39656 torsrvn.snydernet:https ESTABLISHED tor 446435

tcp 0 0 my.ip:9001 76.72.169.90:40606 TIME_WAIT root 0

tcp 0 93 my.ip:9001 torproxy10.teamcy:58154 ESTABLISHED tor 449452

tcp 0 0 my.ip:60081 v-603-kalfa-23-10:https ESTABLISHED tor 448047

tcp 0 1846 my.ip:35776 tor5.anonymizer.c:https ESTABLISHED tor 440943

.

Cheers,

Gus