[or-cvs] clarify accountingmax in man page

Roger Dingledine arma at seul.org
Sun May 1 19:36:59 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:
clarify accountingmax in man page


Index: tor.1.in
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RCS file: /home2/or/cvsroot/tor/doc/tor.1.in,v
retrieving revision 1.74
retrieving revision 1.75
diff -u -d -r1.74 -r1.75
--- tor.1.in	28 Apr 2005 00:03:34 -0000	1.74
+++ tor.1.in	1 May 2005 19:36:56 -0000	1.75
@@ -342,6 +342,9 @@
 \fBAccountingMax \fR\fIN\fR \fBbytes\fR|\fBKB\fR|\fBMB\fR|\fBGB\fR|\fBTB\fP
 Never send more than the specified number of bytes in a given
 accounting period, or receive more than that number in the period.
+For example, with AccountingMax set to 1 GB, a server could send 900 MB
+and receive 800 MB and continue running. It will only hibernate once one
+of the two reaches 1 GB.
 When the number of bytes is exhausted, Tor will hibernate until some
 time in the next accounting period.  To prevent all servers from
 waking at the same time, Tor will also wait until a random point in



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