[tor-relays] tuning MaxAdvertisedBandwidth for CPU

[Steve Snyder]

Maybe you're bottlenecked on DNS resolution?


On 05/24/2012 01:13 PM, micah anderson wrote:
>
> i've got an exit node that is doing a fair bit of bandwidth, but I think it is CPU bound at this point because I am
> getting these:
>
> Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests! Please consider using the
> MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option
>
> i'm wondering what I should set the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth to if I am averaging this type of traffic:
> http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=131b60b9afe6aea60042132d648798534abea07e
>
> it seems from the graphs, there are some clear plateaus at around
> 5100000, but I figured that folks here might have some suggestions that
> are better than just setting MaxAdvertisedBandwidth just to that number
>
> thanks!
> micah