On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:34 AM, <pandemicrelay@hushmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I am a new Tor relay operator, and have setup my first relay. It's been running as a Tor middle relay for about 10 days now, and it's been running solid. It has the stable, guard, fast, running, and valid flags. I have my AccountingMax quota set to start at the first of each month at midnight. However, just past midnight on 07-01 Tor said it was going to hibernate until 07-05. This had me confused as I was only about half way through my monthly quota setup in AccountingMax for June, and my hosting provider reset the data on the first at midnight. I read the manual page about AccountingMax again, and it appears this may have been normal behavior. However before I read the manual page, I forced my relay to wake up out of that hibernation. It appears to be operating normally right now. However, I am wondering if this will cause any issues this month, or in future months? Also, can someone explain if the hibernation of 5 days was normal behavior to begin with.

Thank you

As far as I know, tor startes at some random point so that not all nodes are up in the beginning of the month. If every node would do that, at the end of the month (or day if all have accounting per day) nobody would be able to use tor...