Re: [tor-relays] 100K circuit request per minute for hours killed my relay

Am 27.07.2017 um 19:48 schrieb Vort:

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 This sort of thing has been going on for many years.  I used to refer

to it as "mobbing". As nearly as I was ever able to determine, the behavior is an unintended consequence of hidden services.

Same thing started to happen today and I have noticed that 100% CPU usage spikes happens every hour and lasts for several minutes. During this spikes, all cores of CPU are used and stack trace points somewhere at worker_thread_main() function. Also today relay have more connections than usually (5500 vs 2000-3000). Is this pattern matches the characteristics of hidden services work?

Happened to my relay as well, performance was degraded quite a lot, i lost guard state ....

Strange ...

Sebastian