On Friday, May 6, 2022 2:39:09 PM CEST trinity pointard wrote:
Hi,
There are two main mechanisms to limit relays bandwidth usage. The first is by setting RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst to limit the average and peak bandwidth usage of your bridge. The second is by setting AccountingMax, AccountingStart and possibly accounting AccountingRule, to limit the total bandwidth usage over some periode (day, week or month)
If you want to limit your relay to, say 100mbit, with burst at 120, and set a hard limit on monthly traffic to 1TB you can set in your relay torrc.
RelayBandwidthRate 100MBits RelayBandwidthBurst 120MBits AccountingMax 1 TBytes AccountingStart month 1 00:00
# How we determine when our AccountingMax has been reached. sum|max|in|out # (Default: max) AccountingRule sum
A hint, mostly you want 'sum'. Tor is !Webserver, the incoming and outgoing traffic is the same. Almost all providers calculate in + out traffic.