[tor-relays] Relay

[Jonathan W]

Thank you, I have installed ARM.. It it nice.  So if I gather the above
correctly, rate limiting 430 KB will insure that the totals of the TX and
RX should not exceed 500GB in 2 weeks?  Thank you all for your help again.


On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Moritz Bartl <moritz at torservers.net> wrote:

> On 09/14/2013 09:47 PM, Jonathan W wrote:
> > I am about to run a relay, but I don't want it using more than 1000GB a
> > month.  I prefer to manage this using the *BandwidthRate*//but I don't
> > know the math//to constrain it over a 1000GB a month.
>
> 1000GB in both directions means 500GB per month. You can spread this
> across the whole month, but it probably makes more sense to have a high
> bandwidth relay that is only active for some, say two, weeks. I don't
> have any numbers, but I would guess there are many relays that start
> accounting at the 1st of every month and thus stop relaying traffic
> during the month. So, I would suggest to move the account period, which
> you can do using the AccountingStart directive. The following setting
> sets it to use 500 GB per direction per accounting period, uses a
> monthly accounting period, and starts from the 15th of every month (to
> the 15th of the next month).
>
> AccountingMax 500 GB # per direction
> AccountingStart month 15 0:00
>
> Additionally, you correctly want to use BandwidthRate to not burn 500GB
> on a single day. If your goal is to hit 500GB after around 2 weeks:
> 500GB/14days = (500*1024*1024)KB/(14*24*60*60)seconds = 433 KB/s
>
> BandwidthRate 430 KB
>
> There's some mystery around BandwidthBurst, but the following should not
> hurt:
>
> BandwidthBurst 1000 KB
>
> > I also want to relay the directory.  Is there a way to also use vidalia
> > to interface?  I'll be relaying on a linux (ubuntu) server remotly, and
> > I'm using a windows system to set it all up.  I'll be using SSH to shell
> > in, but I'd love to use vidalia.
>
> No, this is not possible. A wonderful Tor controller for Linux command
> line is "arm", https://www.torproject.org/projects/arm.html.en
>
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