[tor-relays] bandwith unit

[Thomas Hand]

Isnt it just:

kb = kilobits
kB = kilobytes

using standard convention...?


On 17 December 2013 12:38, Kiss Gabor (Bitman) <kissg at ssg.ki.iif.hu> wrote:

> Dear folks,
>
> I'm tor relay operator since several years but newbie on this list.
>
> I just moved node 'traktor' from physical host to virtual machine.
> So I revised all settings and checked if all works well.
> I found a funny thing.
>
> My RelayBandwidthRate is set to 1 MB (i.e. 8 Mbps).
>
>   ## Define these to limit how much relayed traffic you will allow. Your
>   ## own traffic is still unthrottled. Note that RelayBandwidthRate must
>   ## be at least 20 KB.
>   ## Note that units for these config options are bytes per second, not
> bits
>   ## per second, and that prefixes are binary prefixes, i.e. 2^10, 2^20,
> etc.
>   #RelayBandwidthRate 100 KB  # Throttle traffic to 100KB/s (800Kbps)
>   #RelayBandwidthBurst 200 KB # But allow bursts up to 200KB/s (1600Kbps)
>   RelayBandwidthRate 1 MB
>
> However on page
> https://globe.torproject.org/#/search/query=traktor
> the "Adverised Bandwith" column shows cca. 125 kB/s.
>
> Did I misunderstand the difference between kbps and kBps?
>
> Gabor
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