On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:35:37 +0000, Gordon Morehouse wrote: ... > Aug 29 18:19:14.000 [notice] Your network connection speed appears to > have changed. Resetting timeout to 60s after 18 timeouts and 172 > buildtimes.
Random data point: I had these yesterday on a VPS-based relay. > My main question: How do circuit creation requests on one's Tor relay > cause load on one's network infrastructure? Is it DNS requests? Is > it TCP connection state entries? It's not bandwidth, we observed that > above, and my router can handle far faster pipes than the one it's on > currently. The DNS failing is a sign that the router is under severe > stress. Possibly your uplink is full (supposing you're on some DSL), and is starting to build up ping time; then DNS requests to the outside can start to timeout. Andreas -- "Totally trivial. Famous last words." From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800 _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays