2015-10-14 23:35 GMT+02:00 starlight.2015q3@binnacle.cx:
- given costant resource (i.e. euro/month) I can
afford to run relays is it in general better to run one bigger relay or, say, two smaller ones.
Based on a past thread, guessing you run
__fs_ BV2 IT 344 71 6.10 L 5.249.159.209 9001 None ... .aruba.it __fs_ BV3 IT 344 73 6.10 L 5.249.159.198 9001 None ... .aruba.it __fs_ BV4 IT 312 73 6.10 L 5.249.149.153 9001 None ... .aruba.it __fs_ BV5 IT 224 71 6.10 L 89.46.70.98 9001 None ... .aruba.it
which are too slow to be assigned the guard flag.
None of the above :)
I run these three relays[1][2][3].
ccrelaycc [1] has acquired the guard flag in the last few days (don't know when, last time I checked it did not have it).
A thing that is bothering me is that ccrelaycc and inara ([1] and [2] respectively) are both on DigitalOcean, they are in two different regions (AMS and SIN) *but*, notwithstanding that they have an identical configuration, ccrelaycc has been experiencing 2 TB traffic per month in the last 3 or 4 months while inara has barely reached 100 GB per month over same period (I use vnstat and arm for these stats), that is a 20x difference. I would like to understand this difference.
It should be noted that both are the smallest VPS available on DigitalOCean and that comes with 1 TB of traffic per month but it seems that DigitalOcean is liberal about using more bandwidth (I have read a similar comment on this list about DO).
jaine is much more recent and it is on Aruba.it in Italy. I expect that they are much less liberal about using more bandwidth than what is allotted so I set lower limits for the RelayBandwidhtRate parameter.
For ccrelaycc and inara I have set: --- RelayBandwidthRate 1600 KB RelayBandwidthBurst 3200 KB --- and for jaine: --- RelayBandwidthRate 800 KB RelayBandwidthBurst 1600 KB ---
What I see in the end are three quite different behaviors. Given that jaine is at the beginning of its lifecycle I would give it some more time before drawing any conclusions, but I would really like to understand why ccrelaycc and inara are behaving so differently. I would appreciate any input on this.
C [1] ccrelaycc - https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/1211AC1BBB8A1AF7CBA86BCE8689AA3146B8642... [2] inara - https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/AE2EB228A5D2A0CFFBF553319C414946D66CAC3... [3] jaine - https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/9556C2C62CA9A9A296C049BA7BDC10ABD3FF017...