[tor-relays] Setting Tor Relay to Hibernate After 100Mbits

[Keifer Bly]

So I am trying to limit as google cloud has strict  pricing plans. Perhaps
I should go back to just running a bridge for now. What would the traffic
limit for a useful relay be? Thanks.

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 10:40 AM Matt Traudt <pastly at torproject.org> wrote:

> On 6/3/19 13:20, Keifer Bly wrote:
> > Hi all, so as of Google Clouds pricing plans on outgoing traffic, I am
> > attempting to set my relay to hibernate after sending 100 mbits of data
> > per month. Does this torrc configuration look like it would do that?
> >
> > SOCKSPort 0
> >
> > ORPort 65534
> >
> > ExitPolicy reject *:*
> >
> >
> > ContactInfo keiferDoTblyAtgmaildOtcom
> >
> > Nickname torworld
> >
> > RelayBandwidthRate 100 MBits
> >
> > RelayBandwidthBurst 100 MBits
> >
> > AccountingMax 100 MBits
> >
> > AccountingStart month 1 00:00
> >
> > AccountingRule out
> >
> > Thanks all.
> >
>
> 100 Megabits is 12.5 Megabytes, and approximately ~10 page loads of the
> average web page these days (as unscientifically eye-balled by me).
>
> Further, setting RBR and RBB to 100 Mbits (per second) means you could
> theoretically hit your tiny AccountingMax in the first second of every
> month.
>
> An AccountingMax of 100 Megabits is almost assuredly not what you
> actually want.
>
> I'm wondering if there was some confusion about the difference between
> speed and a simple of bytes. Confusingly, Tor uses the same unit strings
> (like "MBits") for both, but mentally we should be adding "per second"
> for torrc options like RelayBandwidthRate.
>
> 100 Megabits per second is a reasonable RBR setting for a reasonable
> relay. 100 Megabits per month is a useless relay.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Matt
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--Keifer
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