[tor-relays] Changing ulimit for debian-tor

[Sebastian Urbach]

On December 12, 2014 12:49:58 PM Lluís <msl12 at sde12.jazztel.es> wrote:

Hi,

> Where can I read about the conditions to get the guard flag ?

If you are looking for details you may want to check out:

https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt

> Jeremy Olexa:
> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Lluís <msl12 at sde12.jazztel.es> wrote:
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >>> Tor can generally raise the limits itself, though, when started as
> >>> root. Can you post the error message that caused you to ask this
> >>> question ?
> >>
> >> There's no error message, I followed this thread:
> >>
> >> "Tor Server - DDOS or High Load"
> >>
> >> there were talking about ulimits and I checked mine.
> >>
> >> I also have to confess that there is no
> >>
> >> rc_ulimit="-n NNNNNN"
> >>
> >> option in my torrc file.
> >>
> >>> and tell us how you start Tor?
> >>
> >> I start tor as the "debian-tor" user and with the delivered tools,
> >> that is:
> >>
> >> /etc/init.d/tor start
> >>
> >> Besides that, it seems to be very difficult for my relay (nickname
> >> ione) to get the "guard" flag, and I wondered if it may have any
> >> relation.
> >
> > You are setting your BandwidthRate to 256K - it will never get the
> > Guard flag. If you raise the rate limiting, it might get the flag in
> > time (if the bandwidth rate is higher than a critical number of nodes)
> > -Jeremy
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