On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 12:39:03PM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
thank you for noticing me. I have updated the debian on this node. It is be the newest of tor in Debian now running there.
Great. It looks like it is running Tor 0.2.9.16 though? That version ("old LTS") is still technically supported, but it will go out of support in a few months. It would be much better to move to the deb.torproject.org repository so you can keep up with the Tor stables better.
My nodes were running at full speed at the beginning and soon ranked very high. The problem is, that when I give a maximum bandwidth, it is used all the time. This of course soon takes up the maximum Terabytes I have per VPS. My bandwidth is thus calculated to full usage all over the whole month.
If anything, like bigger bursts is required, I'd need some way to configure when this is needed or maybe some way, to have pauses. I haven't looked up since I set up the node, if something was developed in tor for this case. I shouldn't be alone there.
Check out the "AccountingMax" option: https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq#LimitTotalBandwidth
You can set up AccountingMax to give it an overall monthly limit in each direction, and then throttle the bandwidth so it doesn't use it all too quickly, but this way you don't need to throttle it so much because it will turn itself off for the month when it's reached the limit.
--Roger
Hello.
Thanks for the response.
On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:52:47 +0200 Roger Dingledine arma@torproject.org wrote:
On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 12:39:03PM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
thank you for noticing me. I have updated the debian on this node. It is be the newest of tor in Debian now running there.
Great. It looks like it is running Tor 0.2.9.16 though? That version ("old LTS") is still technically supported, but it will go out of support in a few months. It would be much better to move to the deb.torproject.org repository so you can keep up with the Tor stables better.
The nodes are now at version 0.4.1.6. Thanks for the hint about deb.torproject.org.
My nodes were running at full speed at the beginning and soon ranked very high. The problem is, that when I give a maximum bandwidth, it is used all the time. This of course soon takes up the maximum Terabytes I have per VPS. My bandwidth is thus calculated to full usage all over the whole month.
If anything, like bigger bursts is required, I'd need some way to configure when this is needed or maybe some way, to have pauses. I haven't looked up since I set up the node, if something was developed in tor for this case. I shouldn't be alone there.
Check out the "AccountingMax" option: https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq#LimitTotalBandwidth
You can set up AccountingMax to give it an overall monthly limit in each direction, and then throttle the bandwidth so it doesn't use it all too quickly, but this way you don't need to throttle it so much because it will turn itself off for the month when it's reached the limit.
Glenda0 is a node running besides other services, so I cannot dedicate many resources there.
Glenda1 and glenda2 are both dedicated VPS with 2 TB of traffic per month, exclusively for the tor project. I increased all BandwidthRate settings to the following values:
RelayBandwidthRate 1 M RelayBandwidthBurst 8 M AccountingMax 2 TB AccountingStart month 1 00:00
What's more needed on the network? Servers, which allow high bursts and then vanish or servers, wich offer constant bandwidth, but all the time?
Sincerely,
Christoph Lohmann
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