[tor-relays] Relay bandwidth

[Alexander Dietrich]

Those settings are "kilobyte per second", so you're currently allowing 4 
megabit per second as burst.

So unless there's many concurrent 2 Mbps connections, sounds ok.

Best regards,
Alexander
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On 2014-02-08 15:28, Tora Tora Tora wrote:
> I have configured Tor with the following (with daily accounting):
> 
> RelayBandwidthRate 384 KB
> RelayBandwidthBurst 512 KB
> 
> 
> I always assumed that the burst bandwidth will set the maximum relay
> bandwidth. However, by using iftop, I can see individual connections
> with speeds as high as 2+ Mbps. Even when individual connections are 
> not
> exceeding burst speeds, adding up bandwidth of all connections would
> probably exceed allowed relay burst bandwidth.
> 
> Is this because Tor is using up the bandwidth allowance, since it is
> well below its long-time average or is this something unexpected that
> should not be happening?
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