BandwidthRate does this actually work ?

[Harley Peters]

Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 07:33:49PM -0600, Harley Peters wrote:
> 
>>>>>BandwidthRate
>>>>>BandwidthBurst
>>>>>MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
>>
>>Well i tried 0.1.0.17 and it didn't seem to help me. The problem is when
>>i turn on directory mirroring i get so many directory requests that it 
>>saturates the connection. And since bandwidthrate doesn't check the out 
>>bound traffic which is what directory traffic mainly is it just uses all 
>>the bandwidth the connection has. The rest of the tor traffic hasn't 
>>been anywhere near the the bandwidth limit i have set.
> 
> 
> Were you setting BandwidthBurst as well? The 0.1.0.17 version of Tor
> will refuse to send out a directory if your write token bucket is empty,
> and it will only be empty if your BandwidthBurst has been exhausted.
> 
> So if you set a BandwidthRate of 20 KB, and leave the BandwidthBurst at
> the default of 5 MB, it will be a long while until it becomes empty.
> 
> Please let me know if that helps,
> --Roger
> 
> 

Yes i set the BandwidthBurst to 20 KB as well. But it didn't seem to help.
It's saturating the upload (outbound) side of my connection which is 
currently 32KB.

Harley




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