[tor-relays] Overloaded relay - need help with how to debug using MetricsPort

2022-01-09 Thread nottryingtobelame via tor-relays
The page linked to by the "overloaded" alert on my relay's Relay Search page mentions using MetricsPort for troubleshooting, but it provides no information on how to actually use it. I posted about this issue on Reddit and no one has replied with a viable guide to help me out, though one user wa

Re: [tor-relays] Strange thing happening in metrics

2022-01-09 Thread lists
On Friday, January 7, 2022 8:58:35 PM CET David Hu via tor-relays wrote: > Hello awesome people, > > I have been running a Tor relay for a while with bandwidth progressively > increasing. However in Tor Metrics, it shows like the attached (i.e. > consensus weight decreased some, and middle probabi

[tor-relays] Home Tor Middle Relay Blacklisted

2022-01-09 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Fellow Tor Operators: After about 9 months of running Tor as a Middle Relay from my home network, I'm beginning to experience signs of my public semi-static IPv4 address being blacklisted with 403 Forbidden errors from Reuters and Venmo. I've confirmed by successfully accessing both sites with m

Re: [tor-relays] Strange thing happening in metrics

2022-01-09 Thread s7r
Hello, Can you please look in your tor.log and previous archive (if you use logrotate) log.1 (or whatever) and tell me if you find a [warn] level message about being overloaded, such as "Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation[...]"? Thank you. David Hu via tor-relay

[tor-relays] relayor v22.1.0-rc is released

2022-01-09 Thread nusenu
Hi, a relayor user asking about relay monitoring best practices motivated me to add blackbox_exporter scrape config support to relayor. This feature allows tor relay operators to monitor the reachability of all their relays' OrPort/DirPorts on IPv4 and IPv6. The next stable relayor release will

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-01-09 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David, Roger, et al., I just got back from holidays and really enjoyed this thread! I run my Loadbalanced Tor Relay as a Guard/Middle Relay, very similar to David's topology diagram, without the Snoflake-Server proxy. I'm using Nginx (which forks a child process per core) instead of HAProxy. M

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-01-09 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Kristian, > I am not really concerned about my IPs being blacklisted as these are normal > relays, not bridges. I suppose if you have the address space and are running your relays in a server environment--it's your prerogative. In my case, I'm running my super relay, from home, with limited a