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Hi,
most hibernating relays with daily quotas start relaying traffic at 0:00 local time.
The timezone introduces some distribution but most relays are located in UTC +02:00 so most of them start relaying at 22:00 UTC.
If you run a hibernating relay and want to spread your resources more evenly you can set a non-default AccountingStart time, simply choose HH:MM in that setting as you wish. (yes, AccountingStart != wakup time, but in practice it is the case for most hibernating relays with daily quotas)
If someone has stats on when the tor network needs most bandwidth during the day it might makes sense to set AccountingStart accordingly - - to add bandwidth when most users need it. (but bw doesn't seem to be an issue currently..)
Reference: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16723
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If you run a hibernating relay and want to spread your resources more evenly you can set a non-default AccountingStart time, simply choose HH:MM in that setting as you wish.
NOTE: If you require your relay to not use more than X GB within one day (0-24) for accounting/billing reasons (i.e. ISP resets traffic counter at 0:00 local time), you should not change the AccountingStart time.
Good observation Nusenu
when the tor network needs most bandwidth during the day it might makes sense to set AccountingStart accordingly
- to add bandwidth when most users need it.
Would it be possible for dozing relays to be brought in to action by the Tor network when needed?
Robert
On 08/06/2015 11:29 PM, nusenu wrote:
most hibernating relays with daily quotas start relaying traffic at 0:00 local time.
https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en
AccountingMax
[...] When the number of bytes is exhausted, Tor will hibernate until some time in the next accounting period. To prevent all servers from waking at the same time, Tor will also wait until a random point in each period before waking up.
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On 08/06/2015 11:29 PM, nusenu wrote:
most hibernating relays with daily quotas start relaying traffic at 0:00 local time.
https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en
AccountingMax
[...] When the number of bytes is exhausted, Tor will hibernate until some time in the next accounting period. To prevent all servers from waking at the same time, Tor will also wait until a random point in each period before waking up.
In reality this is not the case for most hibernating relays with daily quotas - see the onionoo data linked in the ticket that shows how many wake up at the same second (00:00:00 local time). ..but I agree that this is not a big deal just another observation.
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