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

[Christoph Lohmann]

Hello.

Thanks for the response.

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:52:47 +0200 Roger Dingledine <arma at torproject.org> wrote:
> 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.

The  nodes are  now  at  version 0.4.1.6.  Thanks  for  the hint  about 
deb.torproject.org.                                                     

> > 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.

Glenda0 is a node running besides  other services, so I cannot dedicate 
many resources there.                                                             

Glenda1 and  glenda2 are both  dedicated VPS with  2 TB of  traffic per 
month, exclusively for  the tor project. I  increased all BandwidthRate 
settings to the following values:                                                

RelayBandwidthRate 1 M
RelayBandwidthBurst 8 M
AccountingMax 2 TB
AccountingStart month 1 00:00


What's more needed on the network? Servers, which allow high bursts and 
then  vanish or  servers, wich  offer constant  bandwidth, but  all the 
time?                                                                   


Sincerely,

Christoph Lohmann