why is the traffic not more linear?

[andrew at torproject.org]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:22:49AM -0400, michael.gomboc at gmail.com wrote 1.6K bytes in 47 lines about:
: significant parts of my torrc:
: 
: RelayBandwidthRate 100 KBytes  # Throttle traffic to 100KB/s (800Kbps)
: RelayBandwidthBurst 200 KBytes # But allow bursts up to 200KB/s (1600Kbps)
: 
: AccountingStart day 00:00
: AccountingMax 10 GB

You told Tor to only do 10GB of transit a day.  I suspect your relay
spends lots of the day hibernating waiting for the next accounting
period to start.

-- 
Andrew Lewman
The Tor Project
pgp 0x31B0974B

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