Re: BandwidthRate does this actually work ?

[Harley Peters <harley@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 07:33:49PM -0600, Harley Peters wrote:
>
> > > > > BandwidthRate
> > > > > BandwidthBurst
> > > > > MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
> >
> > Well i tried 0.1.0.17 and it didn't seem to help me. The problem is when
> > i turn on directory mirroring i get so many directory requests that it 
> > saturates the connection. And since bandwidthrate doesn't check the out 
> > bound traffic which is what directory traffic mainly is it just uses all 
> > the bandwidth the connection has. The rest of the tor traffic hasn't 
> > been anywhere near the the bandwidth limit i have set.
>
>
> Were you setting BandwidthBurst as well? The 0.1.0.17 version of Tor
> will refuse to send out a directory if your write token bucket is empty,
> and it will only be empty if your BandwidthBurst has been exhausted.
>
> So if you set a BandwidthRate of 20 KB, and leave the BandwidthBurst at
> the default of 5 MB, it will be a long while until it becomes empty.
>
> Please let me know if that helps,
> --Roger

I should also point out that i server the dircetory request via apache2 
proxy_mod. And according to it's logs the tor server never refused a 
directory request.

Harley


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