[tor-relays] running first Relay, low budget VPS on a Gigabit line

[mick]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:12:30 +0200
Rejo Zenger <rejo at zenger.nl> allegedly wrote:

> Hi Tim,
> 
> > Today iftop shows the VPS puts 35 MByte/s in both directions
> > through the line. *Phew*
> > The hosting plan includes 50GB per month so I'm a bit over the fair
> > use.
> 
> > What would you do? Let it run? throttle down? do no harm?
>
> Check the comments and variables in the configuration file. The ones
> you are looking for are:
> 
> RelayBandwidthRate
> RelayBandwidthBurst
> AccountingMax
> AccountingStart
> 
> > Any suggestions how to measure the traffic would be appreciated,
> > must be roughly 12 TB the last 2 days.
> 
> There are a number of approaches. I am running vnstat for this
> purpose.
> 

Plus one for vnstat from me.

And you /really/ want to throttle your node if you are going that much
over your allowance.

Mick


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