[tor-relays] Issue with Relay Status Discrepancy on Tor Metrics

2023-12-18 Thread Jan
Dear Tor Metrics Support Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to report an issue regarding the status of my relay on Tor Metrics. According to Nyx, my relay appears to be running without any problems. However, Tor Metrics indicates that it is offline. Relay Details: Name:BtcTo

Re: [tor-relays] Issue with Relay Status Discrepancy on Tor Metrics

2023-12-18 Thread Georg Koppen
Jan: Dear Tor Metrics Support Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to report an issue regarding the status of my relay on Tor Metrics. According to Nyx, my relay appears to be running without any problems. However, Tor Metrics indicates that it is offline. Relay Details: Nam

[tor-relays] Tor relay operator meetups

2023-12-18 Thread telekobold
Hi, will there be a Tor relay operators meetup @37C3 [*]? Also, there were apparently no meetups in November and December this year? Kind regards telekobold [*] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/infos/startpage.html ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-

Re: [tor-relays] Tor: Possible bug on 0.4.8.9 exit relay.

2023-12-18 Thread trinity pointard
Hi, this looks related to TROVE-2023-007 / https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40897 . It should no longer appear after you upgrade. If it still does, please do come back. Regards, trinity-1686a On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 07:05, George Hartley via tor-relays wrote: > > Hi, > > while

Re: [tor-relays] Declining Relay Usage

2023-12-18 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
Hello Likogan (you did not specify a name, so I just took your domain name). First, lets look at issue number one: If your Tor Exit is using ~50% of the entire CPU (VM or dedicated server?) while only routing 6 Mbps, then you are likely not using hardware AES acceleration (aesni). For example,

Re: [tor-relays] Declining Relay Usage

2023-12-18 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 10:03:01 + George Hartley via tor-relays wrote: > lscpu | grep aes > > If the command returns nothing, sadly your CPU does not support hardware AES > acceleration, or if you run your OS in a VM, then the VM operator likely did > not set "host" as CPU model. > > If howeve

Re: [tor-relays] Declining Relay Usage

2023-12-18 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 15:58:52 + George Hartley wrote: > I had a quick look at the manual, and it stated: > > > HardwareAccel 0|1 > > > If non-zero, try to use built-in (static) crypto hardware acceleration > > > when available. Can not be changed while tor is running. (Default: 0) > > A qu

Re: [tor-relays] Declining Relay Usage

2023-12-18 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 16:57:37 + George Hartley wrote: > Please read the code, not only Tor's code, but also OpenSSL's code. > > Yes, AES is not displayed as engine itself, however, it still does not seem > to use aes-ni instructions unless told to initialize engines via the code I > deducted.

Re: [tor-relays] Worse throughput with 0.4.8.x, on a slow CPU

2023-12-18 Thread Micah Elizabeth Scott
On 12/13/23 06:15, Roman Mamedov wrote: Hello, Ater upgrading from Tor 0.4.7.13 to 0.4.8.9, I get a much worse bandwidth numbers. Hello! I'm not aware of any changes in that interval that should affect relays. Conflux and proof of work both arrived in that time period, but neither of thes

Re: [tor-relays] Declining Relay Usage

2023-12-18 Thread Micah Elizabeth Scott
On 12/17/23 21:16, likogan via tor-relays wrote: My exit relay has seen steadily decreasing traffic from 8MBps to 6MBps over the span of three weeks. It averages a load of ~50% CPU usage and ~65% RAM usage. It's rated network capacity is 17Mbps on a 10GB link. Why would traffic decrease if I hav