teor said:

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Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:58:37 -0800 From: Seth list@sysfu.com

I should have also mentioned in my previous post I put the following in /etc/tor/torrc

# Bandwidth and data caps AccountingStart day 19:45 # calculate once a day at 7:45pm AccountingMax 33 GBytes # 33GB X 30 days = 10GB shy of 1000GB/mo. RelayBandwidthRate 3000 KBytes RelayBandwidthBurst 3750 KBytes # allow higher bursts but maintain average

There are 7/12 months that have 31 days, where your 33GB per day will result in a (potential) 23GB overuse. (And that's not including non-tor traffic like OS updates.)

Why not use 32GB x 31 days = 992GB, or 31GB x 31 days = 961GB ?

The number for the RelayBandwidthRate seems on the high side as well.

One thing I have noticed since I changed my configuration is I keep maxing out the 32GB and my node doesn't seem to be flagged as a Guard node. The main reason I chose port 80 is to make it available to some users that are otherwise blocked, but if the node doesn't obtain a Guard flag it seems kind of pointless to use port 80. So what is better in terms of health of the Tor Network?

Current config: iptables redirects port 80 to 9001. ORPort 198.211.99.146:80 IPv4Only NoListen ORPort 198.211.99.146:9001 IPv4Only NoAdvertise AccountingMax 32 GB AccountingStart day 05:00

Proposed config change: ORPort 198.211.99.146:80 IPv4Only NoListen ORPort 198.211.99.146:9001 IPv4Only NoAdvertise AccountingMax 32 GB AccountingStart day 05:00 RelayBandwidthRate 1000 KBytes RelayBandwidthBurst 3000 KBytes

Note I should actually calculate the RelayBandwidthRate for 1TB transfer, but given the stats from the past week, I think it is a reasonable rough approximation.

Chuck