Re: [tor-relays] BitTorrent complaint

2013-04-10 Thread theo
Steve Snyder schreef op 2013-04-10 22:35: On Wednesday, April 10, 2013 3:42pm, "Jorge-Leon" said: [snip] Oh! I too use the filter as in "BlockingBittorrent". I did not want to restrict my relay to the "ReducedExitPolicy". Almost all complaints were Bittorrent related. So I hoped "BlockingBi

Re: [tor-relays] BitTorrent complaint

2013-04-10 Thread Steve Snyder
On Wednesday, April 10, 2013 3:42pm, "Jorge-Leon" said: [snip] > Oh! I too use the filter as in "BlockingBittorrent". > > I did not want to restrict my relay to the "ReducedExitPolicy". Almost all > complaints were Bittorrent related. So I hoped "BlockingBittorent" would be > the right ting to

Re: [tor-relays] BitTorrent complaint

2013-04-10 Thread Jorge-Leon
On 10.04.13 12:35, Moritz Bartl wrote: ... Another thing is filtering on bittorrent. The tor site suggests a filter: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/BlockingBittorrent Just because it is in the community wiki, it is not something you should do, or an official Tor recommendatio

Re: [tor-relays] BitTorrent complaint

2013-04-10 Thread bartels
On 04/10/2013 12:35 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: Spending time on "legal issues" is part of the job of an exit operator. Sorry. Thanks for educating me. As a C programmer, I can probably contribute in other ways. - bartels ___ tor-relays mailing list to

Re: [tor-relays] How to limit number of sockets used?

2013-04-10 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:51:57 -0400 Steve Snyder wrote: > Yes, I have hit the limit, with the expected "Error creating network > socket: No buffer space available" messages seen. Afaik this is a different error, and it comes from the RAM limit for network buffers, not due to hitting the maximum

Re: [tor-relays] How to limit number of sockets used?

2013-04-10 Thread krishna e bera
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:12:14 -0400 Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 09:09:44AM +0200, Dennis Ljungmark wrote: > > You should be able to use normal ulimit style settings, Limiting open > > files count (a socket is an open file). > > Yes, you can do this, but it will degrade you

Re: [tor-relays] BitTorrent complaint

2013-04-10 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 09.04.2013 18:04, bartels wrote: > Personally, I cannot afford complaints and spend time on legal issues; > however groundless they may be it is not what I do. Spending time on "legal issues" is part of the job of an exit operator. Sorry. DMCA notices are totally harmless. > Another thing is

Re: [tor-relays] How to limit number of sockets used?

2013-04-10 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:19:38 -0400 Steve Snyder wrote: > I am running Tor v0.2.3.25 in a VPS that limits me to a max of 4096 > sockets in use. How can I instruct Tor not to attempt to use more than > this number? Do you already hit this limitation in practice? Some time ago I was running a qu

Re: [tor-relays] How to limit number of sockets used?

2013-04-10 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 09:09:44AM +0200, Dennis Ljungmark wrote: > You should be able to use normal ulimit style settings, Limiting open > files count (a socket is an open file). Yes, you can do this, but it will degrade your relay (and hurt the network) because it will unpredictably hang up on

Re: [tor-relays] How to limit number of sockets used?

2013-04-10 Thread Dennis Ljungmark
You should be able to use normal ulimit style settings, Limiting open files count (a socket is an open file). On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 10:19:38PM -0400, Steve Snyder wrote: > > I am running Tor v0.2.3.25 in a VPS that limits me to a ma