[tor-relays] Hibernation and Guard flag

[Seth]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:09:33 -0800, Filippo Valsorda <hi at filippo.io> wrote:

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

This issued was touched on recently here:  
http://www.mail-archive.com/tor-relays%40lists.torproject.org/msg04996.html

Excerpt: "As the Tor manual says, it's better to have a fast relay  
available
some of the time instead of having a slow relay available all the time."

> 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?

Not sure but I think the configuration made to satisfy question #1 is  
going to override this concern.