Hello, I've been running a relay for some weeks. It has now earned the stable flag. Despite this I always have more than 500 inbound and outbound connections but no circuits at all. Is this normal?
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 04:30:58PM +0100, mattia wrote:
Hello, I've been running a relay for some weeks. It has now earned the stable flag. Despite this I always have more than 500 inbound and outbound connections but no circuits at all. Is this normal?
It depends what you're using to learn how many circuits you have.
For example, it is quite reasonable that you have a bunch of circuits open for other people, but your relay has no "client" circuits because your Tor hasn't received any client-side application requests lately so it stopped building preemptive circuits.
--Roger
11 Mar 15 14.25, Roger:
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 04:30:58PM +0100, mattia wrote:
Hello, I've been running a relay for some weeks. It has now earned the stable flag. Despite this I always have more than 500 inbound and outbound connections but no circuits at all. Is this normal?
It depends what you're using to learn how many circuits you have.
Thank you; I am using arm.
For example, it is quite reasonable that you have a bunch of circuits open for other people, but your relay has no "client" circuits because your Tor hasn't received any client-side application requests lately so it stopped building preemptive circuits.
If I understand correctly, with "client" circuits you refer to circuits I am using as a client (such as TBB)?
excuse the double email; your answer made me understand that my question didn't make too much sense since a relay is not supposed to know the whole circuit.
11 Mar 15 14.25, Roger:
For example, it is quite reasonable that you have a bunch of circuits open for other people, but your relay has no "client" circuits because your Tor hasn't received any client-side application requests lately so it stopped building preemptive circuits.
Mattia
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