-----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 do anything for 26 days. I'm sure you can get a better answer > for it from someone who limits the traffic on his/her relay. > > Berkay > > On June 18, 2014 9:11:57 PM EEST, johhher > <mailinglists-incom...@eigenbasis.de> wrote: > > 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 the end of the month. Is > this the right way to do it? Or would be better to limit it on a > monthly basis. > > Thanks for an answer! Johhher > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > > > > _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing > list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > That is quite a low limit for a monthly cap. If it is a high speed server it will consume the traffic within 5 days, after some time and it's known in the consensus and gains some flags.
I think you are better of putting accounting per day, a daily limit of 16GB should do it. Or, see if you negotiate with your provider unlimited traffic :) long shot worth to try - -- s7r PGP Fingerprint: 7C36 9232 5ABD FB0B 3021 03F1 837F A52C 8126 5B11 PGP Pubkey: http://www.sky-ip.org/s...@sky-ip.org.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTofVAAAoJEIN/pSyBJlsRmnsIALOSA29lsMED59ELox99J7td UKelAVzbusfvxxXIeEUW2sCYT1RTIuPhZHzT2VjrflNpppk9f9DDRQgAdB29LQeL +A4r1fjUvFYOJwUzgMirwJG+MpwjWxkLcujTTzRL4dh7eGVMffEOiNwm5KizKGIf Vuz1TII8sFB/wuRBXfGFy9iP7nOgAmrDR3k6Cid8rsPsKttwFHA1NNHSsqNkL/I4 /Rr7cIIytbDbsIqDvvCQNG0eCGoc2lRvLg6K1DW2fTJNsgOCxHiF6YzsbjrXRw/N EpfkD2EajNIS2kyrM2tKnvDaU1XkGJ9ON1vf3HeXgcE/Dj9ue6dbWulV2Hz2foc= =uUXO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays