Why so little bandwidth used?

terry clough terryclough at gmail.com
Wed Feb 16 17:07:01 UTC 2011


Just a chance, did you open up the secure http port and management port on
your router/firewall and point them to your tor box?



On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Steve Snyder <swsnyder at snydernet.net>wrote:

> Hello.
>
> My Tor router, named ThunderGodTor, seems to be using too little bandwidth.
>
> I have configured the bandwidth limit as 100KB and the burst at 200KB.  At
> http://torstatus.asprion.org/ i see confirmation of this configuration,
> plus an Observed bandwidth of roughly 119KB.  All these values are well
> within my total network bandwidth.
>
> Check out the Router Detail page at http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ for my
> stats.  It shows an average of about 35KB - 40KB with rare peaks at 100KB.
>  This confirms my observation that Tor is not actually using the 100KB limit
> I specified.
>
> I am not choking on CPU (1%) or memory utilization (about 7%) on my router
> machine, so what is the bottleneck in my router utilization?
>
> Thanks.
>
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