On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Moritz Bartl moritz@torservers.net wrote:

Hi Jon,

On 18.08.2013 20:34, Jon wrote:

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I have noticed over the past several months that the amount my exit relay was being used has drastically dropped as the new relays and new exits have come online. Is this normal to see my usage drop noticeably?

I don't see that with our relays. ( https://www.torservers.net/munin/ )

Also, are there really more exit relays? From https://metrics.torproject.org/relayflags.png , it looks like there are indeed more non-exit relays, but not exit relays.

-- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/ _______________________________________________

Moritz,

I was making an assumption that there were more exit relays. I probably should have done a bit more research on the specific. I was just going off the number count of the relays listed.

However, i have noticed a dramatic decrease in my exit server over the past several months, even back to last year. The only thing I could come up with that would be related was the increase in relays. ( both exit and non-exit ).

I have done some changes in the past couple of days as in fine tuning and cleaning the putr box, thinking that may have been part of my issue. At this point to early to tell, but I am not expected much if any increase at this point.

I also wonder with some of the changes in the Tor software adding more entry guards, maybe when one hits the entry guard status, the server usage drops?

Seems to me I had read that in one of the posts that more entry guards were needed and the authority software for the authority servers had been upgraded to add more entry guards. But I may be confused there.

If I go back the past 3 yrs, I can see a difference from what it was running then, to where I am running now, which is a major drop in usage with no changes, prior to the past couple of days.

Thanks,

Jon