Re: [tor-relays] High processor usage - just curious

2018-02-08 Thread Gary Smith
> > Every hour, Tor downloads directory documents, creates diffs to recent > consensuses, > and compresses the documents (and diffs) using gzip, zstd, and lzma. > > Thanks for getting back to me. Except during the mentioned peaks, the relay only uses 5 - 6 % of available CPU power on a machine

Re: [tor-relays] When is 0.3.2.9 available to download?

2018-01-15 Thread Gary Smith
, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:42 AM, teor <teor2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On 15 Jan 2018, at 21:18, Gary Smith <jaffacakemonste...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Firstly, on 9th of this month, tor 0.3.2.9 was released, I was wondering > when it is available the of

[tor-relays] When is 0.3.2.9 available to download?

2018-01-15 Thread Gary Smith
Hi, Firstly, on 9th of this month, tor 0.3.2.9 was released, I was wondering when it is available the official repos via apt-get? I'd rather not compile from source because its on a its on a pi and will takes ages and I will be effectively loosing auto-updates for tor. I have been testing the

Re: [tor-relays] Decline in relays

2017-12-26 Thread Gary Smith
I can only spare a few GB or so day from my home internet, so I set the ACCOUNTING MAX daily limit to 3GB (in + out = 6GB) and RELAYBANDWIDTHRATE to 200KB (BURST 400KB), after much experimenting this was the balance between not hibernating before the 24hr are over and leaving enough bytes left

Re: [tor-relays] New Relay Online/Working on AWS Cloud Torproject

2017-12-22 Thread Gary Smith
Hello. I use AWS to test the alpha release, on the free tier. If you dont mind me asking, I am interested to know what you are doing to avoid a bill Amazon bill at the end of the month. I think I had about 30GB data transfer or so & a few other things and they sent me a bill for USD 0.70 ish

Re: [tor-relays] exit relay

2017-12-15 Thread Gary Smith
Hello. If it is not set in your torrc, try looking in the torrc-default file /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc If you forget where this file is, look in the log where for two lines near the top for "loading torrc" or something If nothing is there, write EXITRELAY 0 yourself, right at

Re: [tor-relays] Issues with faravahar?

2017-12-12 Thread Gary Smith
Hello. I am getting this too, I saw this the logs a few months ago and didn't think anything of it, this time though I ran Wireshark while started tor, and it appears tor is transmitting encrypted info over port 80. I have the .pcap file to prove it. I started / stopped the relay a few times so