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

Roman Mamedov rm at romanrm.net
Sun Sep 8 10:00:08 UTC 2013


On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 05:49:09 -0400
tor at t-3.net wrote:

> Yeah, this must be wrong, then.
> 
> I put this in the torrc:
> 
> RelayBandwidthRate 35 MB
> 
> RelayBandwidthBurst 40 MB
> 
> and I was looking to limit it to 35-40 "M" as shown in Cacti, which 
> would be MBits.

Always remember:

MB (capital B) = Megabyte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte

Mb (small b) = Megabit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabit

But torrc does not support specifying rate limits in megabits anyway.

-- 
With respect,
Roman
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