I run a relay with decently high bandwidth, but limited monthly transit (3TB out). https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/2EC042F4274CC8A54381C78E8D1BF322FA26A09...

I gathered from previous discussions that a fast node that goes into hibernation is more beneficial to the network than an artificially throttled node. So I set a hibernation limit and no speed limit.

However, it looks like my node is fast enough to burn all the transit in a couple of days when it has consensus, and (1 month - 2 days) is enough time to get forgotten.

So I'm probably stuck in a cycle of

month 1. slowly ramp up speed and consensus; go into hibernation for a few days; lose the Guard flag (-> get more traffic); month 2. burn all the transit in 2 days go into hibernation for >25 days GOTO month 1

Is it still the case that I shouldn't put throttling in, even if this means that each other month I'll run at really low speed to ramp up consensus? Or should I combine the Hibernate setting with a reasonable limit of maybe 1 MB/s? Or maybe use daily limits in this case?

(Please CC me, I might not read in-list-only replies)

Thanks, Filippo