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tor traffic ratelimiting




I was on the phone with my ISP today, and as an aside, the engineer mentioned that my 768k upstream was pegged at 105% capacity. I was surprised, and a little freaked out, since nothing should be generating that much traffic.


I killed tor while we were on the phone, and he confirmed that almost all traffic on the link dissapeared. I am quite concerned, because I have the following statements in my torrc:

BandwidthRate 64 KB
BandwidthBurst 128 KB

from these settings I expect that tor should never be using the majority of my available bandwidth- but it seems it is.

Am I missing something here, or has the ratelimiting code been quietly broken?

thanks,
matto

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