why is the traffic not more linear?

[DC]

for me it seems the graph is fine. though the node so seldom hits
beyond 80000bps

before i experienced a flat line for several days. i didn't go below
my max speed for several days. a literal flat line to the max for
about 2-3 days.

On 5/14/10, Scott Bennett <bennett at cs.niu.edu> wrote:
>      On Fri, 14 May 2010 01:04:11 -0400 andrew at torproject.org wrote:
>>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.
>>
>      Unfortunately for that argument, 100 KB/s * 86400 s/d = ~ 8.24 GB.
> Given that a relay typically averages about half the target limit, my take
> on this is that we don't have enough information to determine why he sees
> what he does.  He really didn't tell us what sort of variability he see
> anyway.  Does he mean that it is erratic on a minute-to-minute basis?  Or
> at various times of day?  The graphs at the link he gave appeared damaged
> in Firefox, appearing as straight, horizontal lines (yes, plural) in and
> below the graph boundaries.
>
>
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