[network-health] Upgrade your 'glenda2' Tor relay?

[Roger Dingledine]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 12:39:03PM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> thank you for noticing  me. I have updated the debian  on this node. It 
> is be the newest of tor in Debian now running there.                    

Great. It looks like it is running Tor 0.2.9.16 though? That version ("old
LTS") is still technically supported, but it will go out of support in
a few months. It would be much better to move to the deb.torproject.org
repository so you can keep up with the Tor stables better.

> My nodes  were running at full  speed at the beginning  and soon ranked 
> very high. The problem is, that when  I give a maximum bandwidth, it is 
> used all the time. This of course soon takes up the maximum Terabytes I 
> have per  VPS. My bandwidth is  thus calculated to full  usage all over 
> the whole month.                                                        
> 
> If  anything, like  bigger bursts  is required,  I'd need  some way  to 
> configure when  this is  needed or  maybe some way,  to have  pauses. I 
> haven't looked up  since I set up the node,  if something was developed 
> in tor for this case. I shouldn't be alone there.                       

Check out the "AccountingMax" option:
https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq#LimitTotalBandwidth

You can set up AccountingMax to give it an overall monthly limit in each
direction, and then throttle the bandwidth so it doesn't use it all too
quickly, but this way you don't need to throttle it so much because it
will turn itself off for the month when it's reached the limit.

--Roger