New Tor server

[Justin Burket (KL1RL)]

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> From: Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu>
> Date: May 19, 2005 2:50:36 AM ADT
> To: Justin Burket <zorton at jtan.com>
> Cc: tor-ops at freehaven.net
> Subject: Re: New Tor server
> Reply-To: tor-ops at freehaven.net
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 06:30:55PM -0800, Justin Burket wrote:
>> I've started a tor server on a co-located server hosted down at some
>> giant co-location company with a direct OC3 to God.  In other words
>> it's got plenty of bandwidth.  I've limited it to 5 GB a day so we'll
>> see how it goes.  As long as the process doesn't suck down too many
>> resources i'll leave it running.
>
> Great. Let me know if it's threatening to suck down too many resources,
> and what they are, and we'll try to give you tips on how to help that.
> Usability for server operators is key for us.
>
> Also, note that accountingmax 5 GB means that the server hibernates
> after it reaches 5 GB of incoming bytes, or after it reaches 5 GB of
> outgoing bytes. Some people are charged differently for their 
> bandwidth,
> so you should pay attention to this. :)
>
> If you're limiting to that little, and you have as much bandwidth as
> you seem to, you might want to set "BandwidthRate 100 kb" in your 
> torrc,
> to spread out your usefulness over more of each day. This will also 
> help
> to keep the load on your server down during the times when Tor is 
> active.

As of this morning tor ran with a average resident memory usage of 
about 80 megs and then shutdown at 16:00 UTC when it reached 5 gigs of 
usage.  At hibernate is was using about 45 megs resident, very usable I 
think.  I'm going to crank it up a bit more to 10 gigs and see how goes 
tomorrow.  I think the hosting company this server is on allows 
1Terabtye of transfers a month.  However I need to check with the other 
users and see how much is getting used typically before going too high.

Also I'm thinking of setting the Bandwidthrate to something a little 
lower (currently not set), any suggestions?


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