OK thank you. I'm going to do some tests and see the results. Cumprimentos; Nuno
-- Securely sent with Tutanota. Get your own encrypted, ad-free mailbox: https://tutanota.com Mar 23, 2020, 07:47 by a...@torproject.org: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 05:16:27PM +0100, Nuno Rego wrote: > >> As I said, I'm still learning. I have a server at Hetzner with a monthly >> limit of 20TB, and I am trying to adjust the speed so that it does not >> exceed 20TB at the end of the month. The problem is that whenever I place >> the BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst above 10MB I lose the Guard, HSdir and >> V2Dir flags. On the page >> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/TugaOnion I see that DirPort >> is 0 instead of 9030. I have the BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at 9MB and >> everything is fine, but I will reach the end of the month and I only spent >> about 10TB. >> > > Check your logs. They likely say something like > > "Not advertising DirPort (Reason: AccountingMax enabled)" > > So your relay is indeed opening the DirPort, but it is opting to leave it > out of the descriptor that it publishes (i.e. not mention it to anybody), > in order to save its limited bandwidth for more important traffic. > > You can read more about the design here: > https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/src/feature/relay/router.c?h=tor-0.4.2.7#n1199 > > Your options include: > > (A) Leave your BandwidthRate at 9MBytes, but crank up your BandwidthBurst > super high so the rate limiting rarely actually kicks in. In theory the > bandwidth authority measurers should decide that you're really quite > fast compared to the other relays that claim 9MBytes/s, and assign you > more traffic. (I say 'in theory' because the bwauths are a source of > much randomness and chaos these days, so it is easy to describe what we > hope they will do, but harder to predict what they will actually do. :) > > (B) Turn both your BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst way up, so that you > use a lot of traffic even only in the 'middle hop' spot. It's hard to > say how this one will work out in practice, but in theory (there's that > phrase again) the bwauths should recognize that you can handle a lot of > load as a middle hop, and direct more traffic to you there. > > (C) Sit back, relax, and be pleased that you're offering 10TBytes/mo > to the network. > > All of these are valid directions to go in, I would say. > > Thanks! > --Roger > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
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