[tor-relays] Understanding bandwidth rate

BugZ bugmagnet1 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 11 09:14:41 UTC 2013


Why do you claim burst is not a rate?

If the amount of data is not measured relative to time, how is it relevant?

the internal variable is Relay_*Bandwidth*_Burst

Doesn't "bandwidth" infer rate?  BW is defined as "a measurement of 
bit-rate <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-rate>"



On 12/10/2013 8:25 AM, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Florian Lindner wrote:
>
>> Bandwidth (limit: 16 Mb/s, burst: 32 Mb/s, measured: 48.6 Kb/s):
>> Why is bandwidth limit 16 Mb/s? Why bandwidth burst 32 Mb/s?
> Burst is not a rate.  Its unit is <amount of data> not <amount of data
> per time>.  So it should be MB or Mb.
>
> Cheers,

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