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On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 01:16:18 +0000, you wrote:

Message: 3 Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 12:08:31 +1100 From: Tim Wilson-Brown - teor teor2345@gmail.com To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Hibernation Expectations Message-ID: 6449D528-F52E-49E6-8331-0F3276365348@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

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On 9 Mar 2016, at 05:29, stealth@nym.mixmin.net wrote:

Signed PGP part I am allocating 100gb of bandwidth up and down every day. When my middle relay goes into hibernation, should I expect my stats to go to hell? Should I also expect my flags my stable and guard flags to be removed?

Yes, but they'll come back eventually.

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If I reach my bandwidth restrictions 10 hours before it is reset, is this the reason why the relay would lose guard and stable flags? I may need to restrict my bandwidth to 60gb up and down as I only have 3tb of bandwidth to donate on a monthly basis.

This is another question we see frequently. Until we get a FAQ or wiki entry for it, I'd encourage you to search the list archives for previous answers.

There are good reasons to run a relay that's always on. Then again, there are also good reasons to run a fast relay. If you're very close to your bandwidth cutoff, why not decrease it slightly, and run all the time?

Tim

I have changed my AccountingMax to 60gb and my RelayBandwidthRate to 5mb and my RelayBandwidthBurst to 10mb. I will monitor these settings for the next couple of days to see, if I reach my AccountingMax number. If I do reach the AccountingMax number then I will reduce the RelayBandwidthRate and RelaybandwidthBurst down until my server can run 24/7.