[or-cvs] clean up man page entry for MaxAdvertisedBandwidth

Roger Dingledine arma at seul.org
Tue Mar 22 20:32:50 UTC 2005


Update of /home2/or/cvsroot/tor/doc
In directory moria.mit.edu:/home2/arma/work/onion/cvs/tor/doc

Modified Files:
	tor.1.in 
Log Message:
clean up man page entry for MaxAdvertisedBandwidth


Index: tor.1.in
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RCS file: /home2/or/cvsroot/tor/doc/tor.1.in,v
retrieving revision 1.65
retrieving revision 1.66
diff -u -d -r1.65 -r1.66
--- tor.1.in	22 Mar 2005 19:01:46 -0000	1.65
+++ tor.1.in	22 Mar 2005 20:32:48 -0000	1.66
@@ -49,8 +49,11 @@
 Limit the maximum token bucket size (also known as the burst) to the given number of bytes. (Default: 48 MB)
 .TP
 \fBMaxAdvertisedBandwidth \fR\fIN\fR \fBbytes\fR|\fBKB\fR|\fBMB\fR|\fBGB\fR|\fBTB\fP
-If set, we will not advertise more than this amount of bandwidth, no
-matter how much we think we actually have.
+If set, we will not advertise more than this amount of bandwidth for our
+BandwidthRate. Server operators who want to reduce the number of clients
+who ask to build circuits through them (since this is proportional to
+advertised bandwidth rate) can thus reduce the CPU demands on their
+server without impacting network performance.
 .TP
 \fBDataDirectory \fR\fIDIR\fP
 Store working data in DIR (Default: @LOCALSTATEDIR@/lib/tor)



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