Re: Monitoring TOR

[Nicholas Anthony <nick@xxxxxxxx>]

You might instead want to find out what your bandwidth limit is and use 
the AccountingMax option in your torrc. More info at the FAQ:

http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#Hibernation

From the tor man page:

"If you have bandwidth cost issues, enabling hibernation is preferable 
to setting a low bandwidth, since it provides users with a collection of 
fast servers that are up some of the time, which is more useful than a 
set of slow servers that are always 'available'."

Cheers,

- Nick

Steffen Schoenwiese wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I had some problems with my TOR server (plotin) recently. My provider
> hard-limited my bandwidth from 100Mbit to 10MBit and the ongoing massive
> data from TOR users essentially DoS'ed my server afterwards. As the
> server is mainly used for TOR I didn't notice anything strange until the
> node did no longer appear in the torstatus pages.
> What happened was that the server was not able to obtain new directory
> information due to timeouts and thus could not create new circuits.
>
> As I'm quite certain that such a thing will happen again (my provider
> limits the bandwidth after some amount of data has been transfered) I'm
> looking for some kind of monitoring for the TOR server. Is there
> something out there (mon daemon script for example) or do I have to
> build something from scratch?
>
> Cheers
>
> Steffen
>
> PS. As a result of this I had to limit the bandwidth the TOR server may
> use significantly, sorry guys :-(
>