<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font face="Arial">Dear all,</font><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">A question on how to manage a bandwidth quotum of my internet provider.</font></div><div><font face="Arial">I run a non-exit relay on a hosted server with 1000 GB bandwidth per month.</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">In essence, should I </font></div><div><font face="Arial">A- only set the AccountingMax, and let the relay figure out the RelayBandwidthRate & RelayBandwidthBurst by itself</font></div><div><div><font face="Arial">B- set the AccountingMax, and set RelayBandwidthBurst to whatever the provider will allow (much higher than the average rate)</font></div><div><font face="Arial">C- set the AccountingMax, and set RelayBandwidthRate to the average rate (quotum/31 days), and optionally set </font><span style="font-family: Arial;">RelayBandwidthBurst</span></div><div><font face="Arial">D- only set the RelayBandwidthRate to the average rate, and hope that I don’t go too much over my quotum</font></div></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">This could perhaps be rephrased as:</font></div><div><font face="Arial">- is it better to offer a high bandwidth for part of the month and then hibernate, or </font></div><div><font face="Arial">- should I offer a lower average bandwidth for the whole month?</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">Details:</font></div><div><font face="Arial">I’ve set “AccountingMax 450 GB” with the appropriate accounting start (conservative, since I log in occasionally too).</font></div><div><font face="Arial">450 GB / 31 days => 168 KB / sec average </font></div><div><font face="Arial">Setting “BandwidthRate 168 KB” seems to severely underutilise the relay.</font></div><div><font face="Arial">Setting “BandwidthRate 1000 KB”, to force usage of the relay, uses the relay bandwidth at a much larger rate (<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;">2670 KB/s consensus weight)</span>, and will cause hibernation after ~25 days. </font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">Thanks.</font></div><div><font face="Arial">Kees</font></div><div><br></div></body></html>