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Re: advice on using accounting...



On 2/10/2011 6:34 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 06:19:27PM -0500, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote:
I run a no-exit relay that can sustain about a hundred KB/s but I need
to limit to about 4 GB/day to stay under bandwidth caps. I have
accounting set up but what happens now is that it blows through that
in 12 hours and then hibernates until the next day.
Sounds reasonable.
[snip]

I've been meaning to ask about this for awhile. Is it more helpful to the network to have (using this example) a node running at 100KB/s for 12 h/d, or limit it to 50KB/s and have it run 24/7? At what point does speed outweigh uptime (or vice versa)?

~Justin Aplin

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