-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Chris Whittleston: > Do you think it might help to restart tor every 24 hours or so > using cron Dan - or would that adversely affect the network too > much/not actually help?
Generally restarting a Tor relay is something you want to do as little as possible. I'm not sure if a quick graceful restart will ruin your Stable flag, but if you do have a Stable flag, you're killing every circuit through you when you restart. So, try to keep tor up 24/7 rather than restarting it a lot. Best, - -Gordon M. > On 14 Oct 2013 22:32, "Dan Staples" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In my experience, setting the bandwidth advertising options does >> nothing to stop the "storms" of circuit creation requests. It >> *will* affect the *average* bandwidth used by your relay, but >> every once in a while, I'll still get circuit-creation storms >> that completely overwhelm my RPi and knock it offline (I'm >> talking continuous 3Mbps bandwidth use for several hours when >> MaxAdvertisedBandwidth is 200 kbps). It seems from past >> discussions on the mailing list, this is still an unresolved >> issue. >> >> On Mon 14 Oct 2013 04:43:50 PM EDT, Chris Whittleston wrote: >>> Thanks Logforme - yeah I was trying that before I sent the >>> first email in this chain, but maybe I didn't go low enough >>> with the advertised bandwidth. When the 0.2.4 compilation is >>> done (it's still chugging along) I'll try going lower and see >>> if it helps. >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >>> On 14 October 2013 21:38, Logforme <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> On 2013-10-14 22:01, Chris Whittleston wrote: >>>> I see - so I'll probably still see the problem with a huge >>>> number >> of >>>> circuits being created after I've finished building 0.2.4. Is >>>> there any way to limit this, I'm guessing reducing the >>>> bandwidth wouldn't actually help? I guess I'll look into how >>>> much further I can >>> overclock >>>> the CPU... >>> Only option that I know of is to reduce the bandwidth you >>> advertise >> to >>> the network. The more bandwidth you advertise the more >>> circuits the tor network will throw at your relay. The >>> following flags in the torrc file can be used (with my current >>> understanding of them): BandwidthRate : The max bandwidth you >>> provide over a long period of time BandwidthBurst : The max >>> bandwidth you provide over a short period of time >>> MaxAdvertisedBandwidth : The max bandwidth you tell the tor >>> network about So you can set BandwidthRate to the real max you >>> want to provide and then set MaxAdvertisedBandwidth to a number >>> low enough to prevent circuit overload. >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJSZBrOAAoJED/jpRoe7/ujnf0H/i+LnIirKcAaceALJOuBasQX LczVJiuIG027mqEA6xid6lkiMMVyhIbYbLCL965RJiVm/P8OYfb6woxxUCaOG2s4 N+pzFDZpg5toZOYgp378oq84GDYpvXdeTxTwx+itATsoGBPg28bYA3YTXGfmTiJr /K+cn7j+0QlJsJEgv2taTcnHVgpm4/pm0cfji7/Gg2sGJTuQmRH/V1QMy95fdLUR 9dklGpCHEFNOWcDR+MGRTqrks3qG3iMvxuw0HgQ6l5wJSGi1g1ovV3yI0JZNJKQq vBAHIaZ+yqUHkGux0cd1FxUe+HOVbLfuKFFBNTuuu2riXdboMyI65aepezRqSQU= =h+np -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
