Hi, I'm running a Tor relay on a cheap Linux vserver with high bandwidth. I have a traffic limitation of 500Gb per month and was just wondering what would be the best configuration for the network. Currently I've limited the traffic to a daily maximum to prevent it from hibernating a long time at the end of the month. Is this the right way to do it? Or would be better to limit it on a monthly basis. Thanks for an answer! Johhher
Both has downsides but I think daily is better, if it starts to get a lot traffic than it will serve the network for a few hours every day, but in monthly if it use the all available bw in 4 days, it won't do anything for 26 days. I'm sure you can get a better answer for it from someone who limits the traffic on his/her relay. Berkay On June 18, 2014 9:11:57 PM EEST, johhher <mailinglists-incoming@eigenbasis.de> wrote:
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That is quite a low limit for a monthly cap. If it is a high speed server it will consume the traffic within 5 days, after some time and it's known in the consensus and gains some flags. I think you are better of putting accounting per day, a daily limit of 16GB should do it. Or, see if you negotiate with your provider unlimited traffic :) long shot worth to try - -- s7r PGP Fingerprint: 7C36 9232 5ABD FB0B 3021 03F1 837F A52C 8126 5B11 PGP Pubkey: http://www.sky-ip.org/s7r@sky-ip.org.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTofVAAAoJEIN/pSyBJlsRmnsIALOSA29lsMED59ELox99J7td UKelAVzbusfvxxXIeEUW2sCYT1RTIuPhZHzT2VjrflNpppk9f9DDRQgAdB29LQeL +A4r1fjUvFYOJwUzgMirwJG+MpwjWxkLcujTTzRL4dh7eGVMffEOiNwm5KizKGIf Vuz1TII8sFB/wuRBXfGFy9iP7nOgAmrDR3k6Cid8rsPsKttwFHA1NNHSsqNkL/I4 /Rr7cIIytbDbsIqDvvCQNG0eCGoc2lRvLg6K1DW2fTJNsgOCxHiF6YzsbjrXRw/N EpfkD2EajNIS2kyrM2tKnvDaU1XkGJ9ON1vf3HeXgcE/Dj9ue6dbWulV2Hz2foc= =uUXO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
One way is to limit the bw in /etc/tor/torrc RelayBandwidthRate 100 KB Long term you have to get at least 2TB vps or unmetered bandwidth. Once the relay is stable there will be lot of connections. On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:56 PM, "s7r@sky-ip.org" <s7r@sky-ip.org> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/18/2014 10:46 PM, Relay Admin wrote:
That is quite a low limit for a monthly cap. If it is a high speed server it will consume the traffic within 5 days, after some time and it's known in the consensus and gains some flags. I think you are better of putting accounting per day, a daily limit of 16GB should do it. Or, see if you negotiate with your provider unlimited traffic :) long shot worth to try - -- s7r PGP Fingerprint: 7C36 9232 5ABD FB0B 3021 03F1 837F A52C 8126 5B11 PGP Pubkey: http://www.sky-ip.org/s7r@sky-ip.org.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTofVAAAoJEIN/pSyBJlsRmnsIALOSA29lsMED59ELox99J7td UKelAVzbusfvxxXIeEUW2sCYT1RTIuPhZHzT2VjrflNpppk9f9DDRQgAdB29LQeL +A4r1fjUvFYOJwUzgMirwJG+MpwjWxkLcujTTzRL4dh7eGVMffEOiNwm5KizKGIf Vuz1TII8sFB/wuRBXfGFy9iP7nOgAmrDR3k6Cid8rsPsKttwFHA1NNHSsqNkL/I4 /Rr7cIIytbDbsIqDvvCQNG0eCGoc2lRvLg6K1DW2fTJNsgOCxHiF6YzsbjrXRw/N EpfkD2EajNIS2kyrM2tKnvDaU1XkGJ9ON1vf3HeXgcE/Dj9ue6dbWulV2Hz2foc= =uUXO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
I cannot remember where I read it, but I have read that it is preferred to run a higher speed relay with accounting over a low speed relay. Also, from https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#LimitTotalBandwidth : Note that your relay won't wake up exactly at the beginning of each accounting period. It will keep track of how quickly it used its quota in the last period, and choose a random point in the new interval to wake up. This way we avoid having hundreds of relays working at the beginning of each month but none still up by the end. On 06/19/2014 08:17 AM, Contra Band wrote:
++ 18/06/14 20:11 +0200 - johhher:
I have a server with a similar cap and I am using the following configuration to maximize the utulisation (with some other traffic on the same link as well): MaxAdvertisedBandwidth 400 KB RelayBandwidthRate 200 KB RelayBandwidthBurst 400 KB AccountingMax 400 GB AccountingStart month 1 00:00 -- Rejo Zenger E rejo@zenger.nl | P +31(0)639642738 | W https://rejo.zenger.nl T @rejozenger | J rejo@zenger.nl OpenPGP 1FBF 7B37 6537 68B1 2532 A4CB 0994 0946 21DB EFD4 XMPP OTR 271A 9186 AFBC 8124 18CF 4BE2 E000 E708 F811 5ACF
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