Hibernation and client use

[Jim Pick]

[I'm resending this because I believe my first attempt was blocked due 
to majordomo subscription issues - my apologies if it gets posted twice]

Hi,

I've got a new node ("jpicktor").  I just installed it a few days ago 
and I went to the BayFF talk last night.  Quite fun.

Anyways, I'm playing around with the bandwidth limiting features.  My 
server runs Xen and Linux, and is in a colo (simpli.biz, which is at 
above.net in San Jose, CA).

I'm using tor 0.0.9.9-1 from Debian unstable.

The man page says this about the AccountingMax option:

   If you have  bandwidth  cost issues, using this option is preferable
   to setting a low bandwidth, since it provides users with a collection
   of fast servers that are up some of the time, which is more useful
   than a set of slow servers that are always "available".

So I tried this:

  AccountingMax 2 GB
  AccountingStart day 0:00

The hibernation did appear to work, as traffic dried up.  However, it 
seems that I was also unable to use the node as a client via privoxy and 
the socks interface.

Losing client access wasn't exactly the behaviour I was expecting or 
hoping for during hibernation.  I couldn't find any documentation 
anywhere saying that hibernation would shut down client access.

I'm wondering if it would be possible to allow client access while 
hibernating?  Or is there some technical reason that client access must 
be shut down?

I'm going to try limiting the bandwidth next, at least I should be able 
to preserve client access that way...

Cheers,

  - Jim