FWIW, I did some tuning on mine (not a pi, but had similar issues) and it
seems more stable now too. I added the following to my torrc (where X and
Y are your rates/units):
MaxOnionsPending 250
BandwidthRate X
BandwidthBurst Y
RelayBandwidthRate X
RelayBandwidthBurst Y
I had the RelayBandwidth op
I've been seeing these storms as well on my relay. I average something
like 100 connections for weeks and weeks per the tor logs, but then
suddenly it will jump into the thousands and I'll see the "Failed to hand
off onionskin." and "Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit
creation re
