Consensus & usage are independent
consensus: based on available bandwidth
load: based on usage by tor clients.

if total available bw increases but load doesn't, observed load on a node will drop.

On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 17:27, John Ricketts <john@quintex.com> wrote:
I also would like to add to this - if it were just the Tor network increasing in size I could see my consensus weight dropping and my bandwidth staying the same.  I'm simply not getting the 7-8gbit/sec traffic I was.  Truly odd.

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From: tor-relays <tor-relays-bounces@lists.torproject.org> On Behalf Of Toralf Förster
Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 7:30 AM
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight Dropping/Authority Issues?

On 1/7/20 1:57 PM, John Ricketts wrote:
> I have been watching the consensus weight and bandwidth of all of my 50 exit nodes drop consistently over the past few months. I have not made any hardware changes in my data center


Which correlates to https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html - your fraction just decreases if more and more relays join the party.

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