I run 2 middle nodes, one at 150KB/300KB and the other at 100KB/200KB. Both running what ever is the latest stable version of Tor (0.2.2.33 at this writing).
The 150KB/300KB node (Linux i686) occasionally spikes to the specified 150KB/sec, but 40% - 50% utilization is more typical.
The 100KB/200KB node (Win7 x86_64) never gets to the specified 100KB/sec of traffic.
Either there is simply not enough traffic to saturate all available middle nodes or Tor's node selection algorithm is, um, sub-optimal.
Also, I have come to distrust TorStatus. Why? Because difference sites will have different numbers while supposedly monitoring the same network. One of my nodes is currently showing an Observed bandwidth of 10KB (yes, ten) at torstatus.blutmagie.de while the same node is showing an Observed 83KB at torstatus.all.de. Don't take the reported values as gospel.
-----Original Message----- From: "Jon" torance.ca@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:24pm To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] max / burst speed
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andreas Reich reich.andi@online.de wrote:
well, i dont know exactly but since there are more middle then exit nodes maybe there is no need for larger bandwiths ...
My middle node has a maxbandwith of 250 KBytes and isnt under full load either.
So far i dont have any ideas why your node dont use the full bandwith ... sorry
greetings Andreas
Am 27.09.2011 16:07, schrieb Sebastian Urbach:
Am Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:48:10 +0200 schrieb Andreas Reich reich.andi@online.de:
Hi Andreas,
do you have Accounting enabled in your torrc file? Although even with AccountingMax your relay should run with its Bandwith settings, until the Accounting Options are met.
No, i dont.
Is your relay a middle or exit node?
Middle node.
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I can't speak for others, those with large amounts of BW usage or even those with lower BW usage, but I know I never in the past 2 years have never come close to using my available bandwidth.
I maybe wrong in this assumption, but I am thinking , at least now, that there are certain nodes that dont get a large amount of traffic like they used to, that the BW is more distributed among those nodes that are available.
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