On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 06:55:04PM -0400, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:

I upgraded my node to the latest version, so hopefully that issue should be resolved now. Thanks for your ping!

Great. It looks good now.

About the bandwidth, I checked the tor wiki docs and also my linode instance limits again, and I think I could drop the bandwidth rate limits, and just keep a total monthly cap to ensure my account doesn't exceed its monthly quota. Based on my understanding of the documentation this should be a better setup, is that correct?

Here is what my torrc looks like right now:

AccountingMax 3500 GB AccountingStart month 1 00:00

Yes, that will work. But two potential catches to be aware of:

(A) That's 3500 gigabytes in each direction, and some ISPs count a byte in and a byte out as two bytes for your monthly cap.

(B) If I'm doing my math right, 3500 GBytes per month is 1.35 MBytes/s on average. You might watch take a look at it once or twice a month, e.g. on its relay-search page, and see how much of the month it spends hibernating. If it's a lot, you might put in a few additional rules, like RelayBandwidthRate 3 MBytes RelayBandwidthBurst 50 MBytes to limit it to a long-term average of 3MB/s while still giving it a lot of room in the token bucket before the rate limiting kicks in.

See also this original faq entry: https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq#LimitTotalBandwidth

Thanks! --Roger