[tor-relays] is comcast throttling relays?

Steve Rich steve.rich.dev at outlook.com
Sat Mar 1 23:41:45 UTC 2014


Looks much better now. Thanks!

> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 20:49:58 +1100
> From: zen at freedbms.net
> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] is comcast throttling relays?
> 
> On 3/1/14, Steve Rich <steve.rich.dev at outlook.com> wrote:
> > The question I have now however is, should I set my RelayBandwidth limit to
> > 250k?
> > Currently the advertised bandwidth is 1MB/s, which doesn't see right.
> 
> As with bittorrent, it appears somewhat important to set your
> bandwidth, in particular burst bandwidth (the higher of the two), to
> some figure below your maximum physical (achieved not ISP advertised)
> bandwidth. I think.
> 
> The reason is that if outgoing gets saturated, this can cause problems
> for various control packets, and for me was causing up to 15s
> heartbeat timeouts - I still haven't solved the "unresponsive"
> ARM_NOTICE messages though - here's an example:
> 20:30:18 [ARM_NOTICE] Relay unresponsive (last heartbeat: Sat Mar  1
> 20:30:06 2014)
> 
> Good luck
> Zenaan
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