Do you think it might help to restart tor every 24 hours or so using cron Dan - or would that adversely affect the network too much/not actually help? On 14 Oct 2013 22:32, "Dan Staples" <danstap...@disman.tl> wrote:
> In my experience, setting the bandwidth advertising options does > nothing to stop the "storms" of circuit creation requests. It *will* > affect the *average* bandwidth used by your relay, but every once in a > while, I'll still get circuit-creation storms that completely overwhelm > my RPi and knock it offline (I'm talking continuous 3Mbps bandwidth use > for several hours when MaxAdvertisedBandwidth is 200 kbps). It seems > from past discussions on the mailing list, this is still an unresolved > issue. > > On Mon 14 Oct 2013 04:43:50 PM EDT, Chris Whittleston wrote: > > Thanks Logforme - yeah I was trying that before I sent the first email > > in this chain, but maybe I didn't go low enough with the advertised > > bandwidth. When the 0.2.4 compilation is done (it's still chugging > > along) I'll try going lower and see if it helps. > > > > Chris > > > > > > On 14 October 2013 21:38, Logforme <m7...@abc.se > > <mailto:m7...@abc.se>> wrote: > > > > On 2013-10-14 22:01, Chris Whittleston wrote: > > > I see - so I'll probably still see the problem with a huge number > of > > > circuits being created after I've finished building 0.2.4. Is there > > > any way to limit this, I'm guessing reducing the bandwidth wouldn't > > > actually help? I guess I'll look into how much further I can > > overclock > > > the CPU... > > Only option that I know of is to reduce the bandwidth you advertise > to > > the network. The more bandwidth you advertise the more circuits > > the tor > > network will throw at your relay. The following flags in the torrc > > file > > can be used (with my current understanding of them): > > BandwidthRate : The max bandwidth you provide over a long period > > of time > > BandwidthBurst : The max bandwidth you provide over a short period > > of time > > MaxAdvertisedBandwidth : The max bandwidth you tell the tor > > network about > > So you can set BandwidthRate to the real max you want to provide and > > then set MaxAdvertisedBandwidth to a number low enough to prevent > > circuit overload. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tor-relays mailing list > > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > > <mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > > > > > > > > > > -- > > *Dr Chris Whittleston 栗主* > > Department of Chemistry > > University of Cambridge > > Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW > > Email: cs...@cam.ac.uk <mailto:cs...@cam.ac.uk> > > Tel: +44 (0)1223 336423 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tor-relays mailing list > > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > > -- > http://disman.tl > OpenPGP key: http://disman.tl/pgp.asc > Fingerprint: 2480 095D 4B16 436F 35AB 7305 F670 74ED BD86 43A9 > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
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