[tor-relays] Inconsistent BW measurements of unused relay

[Kurt Besig]

On 12/11/2016 1:43 PM, Rana wrote:
>> On 12 Dec. 2016, at 01:56, Rana <ranaventures at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> OK Tim thanks for the answers, I appreciate your patience with me 
>> [even though I "lack programming skills" :) ]
>>
>> The one answer of yours that still does not make sense to me is that 
>> arm actually means Kbytes/sec and not kbits/sec  when it writes Kb/s
>>
>> I have arm reporting average  of at least several tens of Kb/s all the time, and about 100 Kb/s most of the time,  and then I wind up with almost constant 200 bit/sec actual average rate over 6 hours, based on the total number of Mbytes sent that Tor reports in its log file. 
>>
>> Even if the 200 bit/sec figure is somehow rounded to 8000 bit/ sec or 
>> even 8000 bytes/sec as you suggested , this does not make sense…
> 
> Ok, so you didn't say that to start with, you seemed to be saying that it was constantly showing 100 kb/s.
> 
> Perhaps arm is displaying your maximum bandwidth over a certain time?
> (I really don't now what bandwidth arm measures.)
> 
> T
> --------------------------------
> I do not have a slightest freaking idea and this arm thing seems to have been written by anarchists who thought that documentation was too bourgeois
> 
> Rana
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When I first began running  Tor relays I felt a dependency regarding arm
and it's output as well. However, over the years I weened myself off arm
and just let the relay run without constant worries. I believe this is
the feeling of most operators. When I feel the need I run nload and
Vnstat is handy for analysis. Command line lsof and many others do a
good job as well.
Again, just offering my 2 cents worth....no attack intended..

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