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-rw-r--r--changes/bug167423
-rw-r--r--src/config/torrc.minimal.in-staging6
-rw-r--r--src/config/torrc.sample.in6
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/changes/bug16742 b/changes/bug16742
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2002cb7c72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug16742
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+ o Documentation:
+ - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
+ than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
diff --git a/src/config/torrc.minimal.in-staging b/src/config/torrc.minimal.in-staging
index bde800fd23..d54a5599cd 100644
--- a/src/config/torrc.minimal.in-staging
+++ b/src/config/torrc.minimal.in-staging
@@ -110,11 +110,11 @@
## Use these to restrict the maximum traffic per day, week, or month.
## Note that this threshold applies separately to sent and received bytes,
-## not to their sum: setting "4 GB" may allow up to 8 GB total before
+## not to their sum: setting "40 GB" may allow up to 80 GB total before
## hibernating.
##
-## Set a maximum of 4 gigabytes each way per period.
-#AccountingMax 4 GBytes
+## Set a maximum of 40 gigabytes each way per period.
+#AccountingMax 40 GBytes
## Each period starts daily at midnight (AccountingMax is per day)
#AccountingStart day 00:00
## Each period starts on the 3rd of the month at 15:00 (AccountingMax
diff --git a/src/config/torrc.sample.in b/src/config/torrc.sample.in
index bde800fd23..d54a5599cd 100644
--- a/src/config/torrc.sample.in
+++ b/src/config/torrc.sample.in
@@ -110,11 +110,11 @@
## Use these to restrict the maximum traffic per day, week, or month.
## Note that this threshold applies separately to sent and received bytes,
-## not to their sum: setting "4 GB" may allow up to 8 GB total before
+## not to their sum: setting "40 GB" may allow up to 80 GB total before
## hibernating.
##
-## Set a maximum of 4 gigabytes each way per period.
-#AccountingMax 4 GBytes
+## Set a maximum of 40 gigabytes each way per period.
+#AccountingMax 40 GBytes
## Each period starts daily at midnight (AccountingMax is per day)
#AccountingStart day 00:00
## Each period starts on the 3rd of the month at 15:00 (AccountingMax