[tor-relays] Tor node was doing more traffic than its bandwidth is configured for

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 10:16:51PM -0400, tor at t-3.net wrote:
> I updated our node to the RC version some days ago. Earlier today,
> it started to do a traffic amount that was higher than it had been
> configured to do in torrc. Torrc was configured for 35M use and 40M
> burst, but today it went to 50M and stayed there for an hour.
> Killing it HUP didn't help. I did a service restart on it to bring
> it back down.

Are you sure you didn't confuse bits and bytes? Tor counts in bytes.

(The arm monitor, if that's what you're using, counts in bits by default.)

--Roger