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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-incoming@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

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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

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I cannot remember where I read it, but I have read that it is preferred to run a higher speed relay with accounting over a low speed relay.

Also, from https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#LimitTotalBandwidth : Note that your relay won't wake up exactly at the beginning of each accounting period. It will keep track of how quickly it used its quota in the last period, and choose a random point in the new interval to wake up. This way we avoid having hundreds of relays working at the beginning of each month but none still up by the end.

On 06/19/2014 08:17 AM, Contra Band wrote:

One way is to limit the bw in /etc/tor/torrc

RelayBandwidthRate 100 KB

Long term you have to get at least 2TB vps or unmetered bandwidth. Once the relay is stable there will be lot of connections.

On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:56 PM, "s7r@sky-ip.org" s7r@sky-ip.org wrote:

On 6/18/2014 10:46 PM, Relay Admin wrote:

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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.

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Berkay

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On June 18, 2014 9:11:57 PM EEST, johhher mailinglists-incoming@eigenbasis.de wrote:

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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

...

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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

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