[tor-relays] Question on bridge hibernation

[Frank Lý]

Your bridge will wake up around the beginning of the accounting period stated by `AccountingStart`. Here is more information about it and other related configuration options:

https://support.torproject.org/relay-operators/limit-total-bandwidth/

If you do not have `AccountingStart` in your `torrc` file, your bridge will stay dormant after reaching the specified `AccountingMax` value you have configured. Any inactive Tor relays will be delisted from Tor Metrics after one week.

Frank

May 14, 2024, 11:42 PM by keifer.bly at gmail.com:

> Hi,
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> So for my bridge at 
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> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/4D6E3CA2110FC36D3106C86940A1D4C8C91923AB
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> Is set to hibernate once it reaches a certain traffic level (this is to prevent massive charges to my VPS). Now that is in hibernation, when will it start again, and how would this effect how it's distributed? Are bridges that are hibernating removed from relay search? Mew to hibernation, thanks.
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> May 14 18:49:39.000 [notice] Configured to measure statistics. Look for the *-stats files that will first be written to the data directory in 24 hours from now.
> May 14 18:49:39.000 [warn] You are running Tor as root. You don't need to, and you probably shouldn't.
> May 14 18:49:39.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 0% (starting): Starting
> May 14 18:49:47.000 [notice] Starting with guard context "default"
> May 14 18:49:47.000 [notice] Registered server transport 'obfs4' at '[::]:8081'
> May 14 18:49:48.000 [notice] Bandwidth soft limit reached; commencing hibernation. No new connections will be accepted
> May 14 18:49:48.000 [notice] Going dormant. Blowing away remaining connections.
> May 14 18:49:48.000 [notice] Delaying directory fetches: We are hibernating or shutting down.
> --Keifer
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