Re: [tor-relays] Traffic limitation

2014-06-20 Thread Rejo Zenger
++ 18/06/14 20:11 +0200 - johhher: I'm running a Tor relay on a cheap Linux vserver with high bandwidth. I have a traffic limitation of 500Gb per month and was just wondering what would be the best configuration for the network. I have a server with a similar cap and I am using the following

Re: [tor-relays] Traffic limitation

2014-06-19 Thread Contra Band
One way is to limit the bw in /etc/tor/torrcĀ  RelayBandwidthRate 100 KB Long term you have to get at least 2TB vps or unmetered bandwidth. Once the relay is stable there will be lot of connections. On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:56 PM, s...@sky-ip.org s...@sky-ip.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: [tor-relays] Traffic limitation

2014-06-19 Thread mal
I cannot remember where I read it, but I have read that it is preferred to run a higher speed relay with accounting over a low speed relay. Also, from https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#LimitTotalBandwidth : Note that your relay won't wake up exactly at the beginning of each accounting period.

[tor-relays] Traffic limitation

2014-06-18 Thread johhher
Hi, I'm running a Tor relay on a cheap Linux vserver with high bandwidth. I have a traffic limitation of 500Gb per month and was just wondering what would be the best configuration for the network. Currently I've limited the traffic to a daily maximum to prevent it from hibernating a long time at

Re: [tor-relays] Traffic limitation

2014-06-18 Thread Relay Admin
Both has downsides but I think daily is better, if it starts to get a lot traffic than it will serve the network for a few hours every day, but in monthly if it use the all available bw in 4 days, it won't do anything for 26 days. I'm sure you can get a better answer for it from someone who

Re: [tor-relays] Traffic limitation

2014-06-18 Thread s...@sky-ip.org
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/18/2014 10:46 PM, Relay Admin wrote: Both has downsides but I think daily is better, if it starts to get a lot traffic than it will serve the network for a few hours every day, but in monthly if it use the all available bw in 4 days, it won't