Re: [tor-relays] Inconsistent BW measurements of unused relay

["Rana" <ranaventures@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On 12 Dec. 2016, at 01:56, Rana <ranaventures@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> OK Tim thanks for the answers, I appreciate your patience with me 
> [even though I "lack programming skills" :) ]
> 
> The one answer of yours that still does not make sense to me is that 
> arm actually means Kbytes/sec and not kbits/sec  when it writes Kb/s
> 
> I have arm reporting average  of at least several tens of Kb/s all the time, and about 100 Kb/s most of the time,  and then I wind up with almost constant 200 bit/sec actual average rate over 6 hours, based on the total number of Mbytes sent that Tor reports in its log file. 
> 
> Even if the 200 bit/sec figure is somehow rounded to 8000 bit/ sec or 
> even 8000 bytes/sec as you suggested , this does not make sense…

Ok, so you didn't say that to start with, you seemed to be saying that it was constantly showing 100 kb/s.

Perhaps arm is displaying your maximum bandwidth over a certain time?
(I really don't now what bandwidth arm measures.)

T
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I do not have a slightest freaking idea and this arm thing seems to have been written by anarchists who thought that documentation was too bourgeois

Rana

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