Re: [tor-relays] Rate setting in tor

On Thu, 07 Sep 2017 22:56:17 +0000, r1610091651 wrote:

RelayBandwidthRate 2048 KBytes RelayBandwidthBurst 2048 KBytes

But using arm, I'm seeing that tor is not honoring these settings, with bursts frequently exceeding the value.

That's the point of the Burst - there is a bucket that is filled up with unused bandwidth, up to the Burst value, and before the relay throttles down to RB-Rate it also lets as many byte pass as the bucket currently has.

Means that with your setting your relay can pass up to 4 MByte in any given second (but not in every second).

- Andreas