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Re: [tor-relays] Relay Throttling



On Friday, May 6, 2022 2:39:09 PM CEST trinity pointard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There are two main mechanisms to limit relays bandwidth usage.
> The first is by setting RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst to limit
> the average and peak bandwidth usage of your bridge.
> The second is by setting AccountingMax, AccountingStart and possibly
> accounting AccountingRule, to limit the total bandwidth usage over some
> periode (day, week or month)
> 
> If you want to limit your relay to, say 100mbit, with burst at 120, and set
> a hard limit on monthly traffic to 1TB you can set in your relay torrc.
> 
> RelayBandwidthRate 100MBits
> RelayBandwidthBurst 120MBits
> AccountingMax 1 TBytes
> AccountingStart month 1 00:00
# How we determine when our AccountingMax has been reached. sum|max|in|out
# (Default: max)
AccountingRule sum

A hint, mostly you want 'sum'.
Tor is !Webserver, the incoming and outgoing traffic is the same. Almost all 
providers calculate in + out traffic.


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