[tor-relays] [Relay] Hibernation Reset

[Tor Operator]

Here goes.

The relay was configured to turn off when 1TB of traffic was reached. It 
did so way faster than I anticipated. Moreover, my VPS host actually 
doesn't count inbound traffic as part of my monthly limit. Since a TOR 
relay traffic is mostly symmetric, it does mean that BWAccounting will 
still consider the inbound traffic as part of the hard-limit.

The old configuration was :
AccountingRule sum
AccountingMax 1000 GBytes

That was obviously a mistake since the "sum" method meant that I would 
hit the hard-limit really quickly. Here is the current configuration 
that I'm testing. What I want is simply to reset the accounting cycle on 
the first of every month. The max statement should allow me to use 
1.5TB~ of data (750 GB inbound / 750 GB outbound) :

AccountingRule max
AccountingStart month 1 00:00
AccountingMax 750 GBytes

Now, since accounting also tracks the "old" data, is there a way to 
"start anew"? To reset the data accumulated so far?

I appreciate any help on the matter!

Thanks.

On 7/21/2015 11:09 AM, teor wrote:
>
>> On 21 Jul 2015, at 03:12 , Tor Operator <tor at coldnorthadmin.com 
>> <mailto:tor at coldnorthadmin.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi gents,
>>
>> I rencetly had one of my relay fall into hibernation. It seems that 
>> simply restarting the service doesn't change the hibernation status 
>> since Tor is still thinking that the BW limits have been overrun. Is 
>> the proper method to reset the status of the node is simply to delete 
>> the "state" file in "/var/lib/tor/". For now, I just set back to 0 
>> the "AccountingBytesReadInInterval" and 
>> "AccountingBytesWrittenInInterval" counters and the node was able to 
>> wake up but that doesn't seem like a very elegant way to do it.
>
> Why not edit or remove the accounting limits in the torrc?
> We might need a little more context: why are the accounting limits set 
> lower than you want?
> What exactly are you trying to achieve?
>
> Tim
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