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-rw-r--r--contrib/linux-tor-prio.sh24
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/linux-tor-prio.sh b/contrib/linux-tor-prio.sh
index 0ebb47564..473511131 100644
--- a/contrib/linux-tor-prio.sh
+++ b/contrib/linux-tor-prio.sh
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
# to your individual connection. In particular, you should leave *some*
# minimum amount of bandwidth for Tor, so that Tor users are not
# completely choked out when you use your server's bandwidth. 30% is
-# probably a polite choice.
+# probably a reasonable choice. More is better of course.
# To start the shaping, run it as:
# ./linux-tor-prio.sh
@@ -61,20 +61,22 @@ TOR_UID=$(id -u tor)
# Average ping to most places on the net, milliseconds
RTT_LATENCY=40
-# RATE_UP must be less than your connection's upload capacity. If it is
-# larger, then the bottleneck will be at your router's queue, which you
-# do not control. This will cause congestion and a revert to normal TCP
-# fairness no matter what the queing priority is.
+# RATE_UP must be less than your connection's upload capacity in
+# kbits/sec. If it is larger, then the bottleneck will be at your
+# router's queue, which you do not control. This will cause congestion
+# and a revert to normal TCP fairness no matter what the queing
+# priority is.
RATE_UP=5000
-# RATE_UP_TOR is the minimum speed your Tor connections will have.
-# They will have at least this much bandwidth for upload. In general,
-# you probably shouldn't set this too low, or else Tor users who use
-# your node will be completely choked out whenever your machine
-# does any other network activity. That is not very fun.
+# RATE_UP_TOR is the minimum speed your Tor connections will have in
+# kbits/sec. They will have at least this much bandwidth for upload.
+# In general, you probably shouldn't set this too low, or else Tor
+# users who use your node will be completely choked out whenever your
+# machine does any other network activity. That is not very fun.
RATE_UP_TOR=1500
-# RATE_UP_TOR_CEIL is the maximum rate allowed for all Tor trafic
+# RATE_UP_TOR_CEIL is the maximum rate allowed for all Tor trafic in
+# kbits/sec.
RATE_UP_TOR_CEIL=5000
CHAIN=OUTPUT