Thank you, I have installed ARM.. It it nice. So if I gather the above correctly, rate limiting 430 KB will insure that the totals of the TX and RX should not exceed 500GB in 2 weeks? Thank you all for your help again.
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Moritz Bartl <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/14/2013 09:47 PM, Jonathan W wrote: > > I am about to run a relay, but I don't want it using more than 1000GB a > > month. I prefer to manage this using the *BandwidthRate*//but I don't > > know the math//to constrain it over a 1000GB a month. > > 1000GB in both directions means 500GB per month. You can spread this > across the whole month, but it probably makes more sense to have a high > bandwidth relay that is only active for some, say two, weeks. I don't > have any numbers, but I would guess there are many relays that start > accounting at the 1st of every month and thus stop relaying traffic > during the month. So, I would suggest to move the account period, which > you can do using the AccountingStart directive. The following setting > sets it to use 500 GB per direction per accounting period, uses a > monthly accounting period, and starts from the 15th of every month (to > the 15th of the next month). > > AccountingMax 500 GB # per direction > AccountingStart month 15 0:00 > > Additionally, you correctly want to use BandwidthRate to not burn 500GB > on a single day. If your goal is to hit 500GB after around 2 weeks: > 500GB/14days = (500*1024*1024)KB/(14*24*60*60)seconds = 433 KB/s > > BandwidthRate 430 KB > > There's some mystery around BandwidthBurst, but the following should not > hurt: > > BandwidthBurst 1000 KB > > > I also want to relay the directory. Is there a way to also use vidalia > > to interface? I'll be relaying on a linux (ubuntu) server remotly, and > > I'm using a windows system to set it all up. I'll be using SSH to shell > > in, but I'd love to use vidalia. > > No, this is not possible. A wonderful Tor controller for Linux command > line is "arm", https://www.torproject.org/projects/arm.html.en > > -- > Moritz Bartl > https://www.torservers.net/ > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
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