tor traffic ratelimiting

[Dustin Eward]

Matt Ghali wrote:

>
> I was on the phone with my ISP today, and as an aside, the engineer 
> mentioned that my 768k upstream was pegged at 105% capacity. I was 
> surprised, and a little freaked out, since nothing should be 
> generating that much traffic.
>
> I killed tor while we were on the phone, and he confirmed that almost 
> all traffic on the link dissapeared. I am quite concerned, because I 
> have the following statements in my torrc:
>
> BandwidthRate 64 KB
> BandwidthBurst 128 KB
>
> from these settings I expect that tor should never be using the 
> majority of my available bandwidth- but it seems it is.
>
> Am I missing something here, or has the ratelimiting code been quietly 
> broken?
>
> thanks,
> matto
>
> --matt at snark.net------------------------------------------<darwin><
>               The only thing necessary for the triumph
>               of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
>
HEhehe, I did the same thing, K != k