Re: [tor-relays] Changing ulimit for debian-tor

[Jeremy Olexa <jolexa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:56 AM, LluÃs <msl12@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>> Tor can generally raise the limits itself, though, when started as
>> root. Can you post the error message that caused you to ask this
>> question ?
>
> There's no error message, I followed this thread:
>
> "Tor Server - DDOS or High Load"
>
> there were talking about ulimits and I checked mine.
>
> I also have to confess that there is no
>
> rc_ulimit="-n NNNNNN"
>
> option in my torrc file.
>
>> and tell us how you start Tor?
>
> I start tor as the "debian-tor" user and with the delivered tools,
> that is:
>
> /etc/init.d/tor start
>
> Besides that, it seems to be very difficult for my relay (nickname
> ione) to get the "guard" flag, and I wondered if it may have any
> relation.

You are setting your BandwidthRate to 256K - it will never get the
Guard flag. If you raise the rate limiting, it might get the flag in
time (if the bandwidth rate is higher than a critical number of nodes)
-Jeremy
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