BandwidthRate does this actually work ?

[Harley Peters]

Harley Peters wrote:
> Do these settings actually work ?
> 
> BandwidthRate
> BandwidthBurst
> MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
> 
> I ask this because i am running a low bandwith 20 KB server and it is 
> saturating the connection which is currently 32 KB will be increased to 
> 64 KB soon.
> I have tested the connection and it is able to deliver the full 32 KB.
> In the torrc config file i have tried both:
> BandwidthRate 20 KB and
> BandwidthRate 20000 and they seem to do nothing.
> Tor is saturating the connection so bad that the ntp time server on the
> machine can't stay in sync due to not being able to access the internet.
> If i can't get these to work i might have to shut down the tor server 
> until i can get qos working on my router.(currently broken).A new 
> firmware is due out soon but soon could be a month.
> 
> Also what are you supposed to set BandwithBurst to ?
> 
> Harley
> 
Ok i have found out that this is due to directory mirroring.
I will have to turn directory mirroring off until i get qos working.

Harley


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