On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor <teor2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 1 Oct 2015, at 15:22, Dhalgren Tor <dhalgren....@gmail.com> wrote: > > If the relay stays overloaded I'll try a packet-dropping IPTABLES rule > to "dirty-up" the connection. > > Please reduce your BandwidthRate until your relay load is what you want it > to be, or wait until the bandwidth authorities notice your relay is > overloaded and reduce its consensus weight.
You are willfully missing the entire point here. HAVE set the bandwidth limit and the measurement system is overrating the relay despite this. > Dropping packets using IPTABLES will actually increase your relay’s load due > to retransmits, and degrade the performance of clients which use your relay. > An IPTABLES rule would also degrade the performance of the overall Tor > network due to these same retransmits. I will give it a couple of days to normalize, but if the relay remains overrated I will proceed with a IPTABLES packet-dropping rate limit. The point is to have the measurement system set a rating that gives a 80-90% load for active circuits. At that load no packets will be discarded for regular Tor users. The packet-dropping rate limit will only impact measurement connections. _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
