[tor-relays] Hibernation and Guard flag

[Filippo Valsorda]

Hello,

I set up a relay node on my VPS to eat up all that unused bandwidth, and
it's doing well so far [1].

Since I have ~3TB per month and I heard hibernation is preferable to
throttling, I set up monthly accounting with that cap. However I have
two doubts:

1. Is daily accounting preferable? That is, what's best, shorter or
longer hibernation periods?

2. How does hibernation play with the Guard flag? I know Guards rotation
plays a crucial role in users privacy, and it seems to me hibernation
would really hurt a client that selected you as its Guard, since it will
have either to run with one less available Guard, or pick a new one and
increase its risk. Also, I know there are talks about making only 1
Guard selected, how would that play with hibernation?

N.B. please cc me into the replies, I might not be getting only-in-list
replies.

Thanks,
Filippo

[1]
https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/2EC042F4274CC8A54381C78E8D1BF322FA26A095