On 11/23/2014 11:05 AM, s7r wrote:
That is, because in almost all cases, providers allow unmetered incoming traffic to your server but keep count and accounting on outgoing traffic from your server, which is why the torrc setting acts the way it does.
That would be great! I'll confirm with the provider.
I'm also wondering what to set for RelayBandwidthRate for an exit. I see some old threads on this list, and a question at Tor.SE, but find nothing that's clear and persuasive.
Assuming that the 1000 GB/mo limit applies to just outgoing traffic, throughput would need to average ca. 0.4 MB/sec. However, median advertised exit bandwidth from Tor Metrics is ca. 1 MB/sec, so it seems unlikely that an exit advertising 0.4 MB/sec would be used very heavily. And so actual usage would be far less than 0.4 MB/sec.
Conversely, setting RelayBandwidthRate to 3 MB/sec would ultimately lead to heavy use. But with full utilization at 250 GB per day, the relay would hibernate after just four days. There must be some intermediate value that would bring average usage to 0.4 MB/sec.
What is the optimal RelayBandwidthRate for a 1000 GB/mo VPS? I'm guessing that it's about 1 MB/sec.
On 11/23/2014 7:58 PM, Seth wrote:
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:42:15 -0800, Mirimir mirimir@riseup.net wrote:
How much throughput do you get with your VPS, 1000 GB/mo or 2000 GB/mo?
The 1000 GB/mo applies to whichever value is greater, input or output. So far the Tor node is pushing less than 1.5GB per day. Takes a while for traffic to ramp up apparently.
As I read comments in torrc, AccountingMax "applies separately to sent and received bytes, not to their sum", and so "setting '4 GB' may allow up to 8 GB total before hibernating".
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