Hi,

I am running an exit-relay and noticed a couple of odd things:

1. Last months, the node seems to be slow in using the full capacity.

- Back in April, I changed the relay's configuration to allow the relay to use all the bandwidth it could take. As a result, within a week or two the bandwidth consumption went up to 50 Mbps. In the months of May to July, I had to limit the capacity of the node again. Mid-July I reverted to the same configuration from April. However, the node was a lot slower to pick up the full capacity. [1]

- So, the question is: why is it so much slower maximising the full bandwidth? The configuration from mid-July onwards is identical to the one in April. The only thing that has changed is in mid-August, when I moved to relay into a LXC container. However, that doesn't explain the slow pickup in mid-July to mid-August.

- And yes, I am aware of the Roger's blogpost. That does explain why the node may be slow to pick up traffic, but it doesn't explain why it was a lot faster in doing so in April then in mid-July.

2. Since Friday there is a considerable drop in the traffic.

- Last Friday, around 23:00 hours CET the traffic dropped to about a third of it's usage the days before. Since then, there have been some increase from time to time, but the average is still half or even less than before Friday. There was no change in configuration.

I don't have the time to investigate these issues myself. However, if someone wants to look into this, let me know and I am more than happy to provide the details needed.

[1] https://rejo.zenger.nl/tmp/94.142.240.243_10-year.png [1] https://rejo.zenger.nl/tmp/94.142.240.243_10-week.png