> I guess arm is using this or something similar to display the bandwidth > usage of Tor.
Nope, arm just gives a running total of the BW events (ie, if you restart arm the totals will revert to zero). At the moment I'm unaware of a method of getting the total bandwidth besides tallying it (though it's included in a proposal that's currently being batted around on or-dev). Cheers! -Damian On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Paul Menzel < paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Am Freitag, den 05.03.2010, 10:17 -0500 schrieb and...@torproject.org: >> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 09:32:59AM +0100, paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net wrote 1.4K bytes in 39 lines about: >> : > What did you configure for your bandwidth limits or accountingmax? >> : >> : I did not configure them and so the defaults are used. arm is displaying >> : »(cap: 5 MB, burst: 10 MB)«. >> >> Ok, then Tor will figure out how much bandwidth it can reliably provide. > > On what conditions does that depend? > >> If you look at your (datadirectory)/state file, it will show you how >> much bandwidth tor has been providing over time. > > I guess arm is using this or something similar to display the bandwidth > usage of Tor. > > Looking at `DataDirectory/state` directly I cannot figure out how to > interpret the values. Maybe I need tot enable bandwidth accounting. > > $ man torrc > […] > DataDirectory/state > A set of persistent key-value mappings. These are documented in > the file. These include: > - The current entry guards and their status. > - The current bandwidth accounting values (unused so far; see > below). > - When the file was last written > - What version of Tor generated the state file > - A short history of bandwidth usage, as produced in the router > descriptors. > > DataDirectory/bw_accounting > Used to track bandwidth accounting values (when the current > period starts and ends; how much has been read and written so > far this period). This file is obsolete, and the data is now > stored in the ’state’ file as well. Only used when bandwidth > accounting is enabled. > […] > > Searching the WWW for »tor state bandwidth« did not help either. > > > Thanks, > > Paul >