Re: [tor-relays] Does Tor itself estimate how it can run as quota-utilizing as possible?

2023-10-01 Thread telekobold
Hi, thank you for your answer. But for me, it seems like your explanation at least does not fully apply in my case: One of my relays reaches its quota every month before the end of the month, but it restarts automatically at the beginning of a month using the settings below, and it did so als

Re: [tor-relays] Does Tor itself estimate how it can run as quota-utilizing as possible?

2023-10-01 Thread trinity pointard
Hi, When using AccountingMax, tor tries to guess how long in will take for it to use its quotas, and will decide deliberately to hibernate for some time at the start of the period. It does that so not every relay is working at its max capacity on the first of the month, and only the unmetered ones

[tor-relays] Does Tor itself estimate how it can run as quota-utilizing as possible?

2023-10-01 Thread telekobold
Hello together, today I apparently discovered an interesting feature of Tor I wasn't aware of: I'm running two relays at a large provider's data center having 20TB/month free outgoing traffic for each relay. However, this quota is often exhausted before the end of a month. In order to provid