[tor-relays] Directory Server and bandwidth accounting

[mal]

On 06/26/2014 01:13 PM, s7r wrote:
> On 6/26/2014 7:46 PM, Kali Tor wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
>> Is my understanding correct that if I set AccountingMax, the relay
>> will never be used as a DR?
> 
>> It kind of feels odd because in my situation I can donate 500GB
>> (and maybe even more) but I do want to keep a max limit and at the
>> same time let the relay be a DR as well. Any way to achieve this?
> 
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> 
> 
> Hi Kali
> 
> Where did you learn that AccountingMax argument will prevent you from
> being a directory server?
> 
> I can not confirm or infirm this information, but as far as I see in
> the manual there is no such reference for accountingmax.
> 
> 500GB per month is little amount of traffic, seriously. My 100mbit
> relays made on virtual servers consume 6-7TB of total traffic per month.
> 
> Use the accountingmax argument and you should be fine, it's better
> than capping bandwidth and it is a great help for the network.
> 
> Thanks for running a relay.
> 

I had not read anything about this either, until I tried to enable it
and got this in my log:

10:15:43 [NOTICE] Not advertising DirPort (Reason: AccountingMax enabled)

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