[tor-relays] managing bandwidth quotum

[Thomas White]

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Well one thing to note is that setting a bandwidth rate means you
could significantly underutilise your bandwidth capabilities, as
opposed to an overall cap. Also to consider the bandwidth on offer, I
would personally set it to use as much bandwidth as possible and then
hibernate for the rest of the month as it means you don't underutilise
your resources and those using you in their circuit won't be
bottlenecked by the rate limiting.

So imo, use AccountingMax and set the rate limits to as much as your
line speed can offer to ensure you get the most for what you are
paying for. In the hibernation periods, people can route around and
continue to use other servers still available without having an
artificial throughput restriction.

- -T

On 26/08/2014 17:43, Kees Goossens wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> A question on how to manage a bandwidth quotum of my internet
> provider. I run a non-exit relay on a hosted server with 1000 GB
> bandwidth per month.
> 
> In essence, should I A- only set the AccountingMax, and let the
> relay figure out the RelayBandwidthRate & RelayBandwidthBurst by
> itself B- set the AccountingMax, and set RelayBandwidthBurst to
> whatever the provider will allow (much higher than the average
> rate) C- set the AccountingMax, and set RelayBandwidthRate to the
> average rate (quotum/31 days), and optionally set
> RelayBandwidthBurst D- only set the RelayBandwidthRate to the
> average rate, and hope that I don’t go too much over my quotum
> 
> This could perhaps be rephrased as: - is it better to offer a high
> bandwidth for part of the month and then hibernate, or - should I
> offer a lower average bandwidth for the whole month?
> 
> Details: I’ve set “AccountingMax 450 GB” with the appropriate
> accounting start (conservative, since I log in occasionally too). 
> 450 GB / 31 days => 168 KB / sec average Setting “BandwidthRate 168
> KB” seems to severely underutilise the relay. Setting
> “BandwidthRate 1000 KB”, to force usage of the relay, uses the
> relay bandwidth at a much larger rate (2670 KB/s consensus weight),
> and will cause hibernation after ~25 days.
> 
> Thanks. Kees
> 
> 
> 
> 
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