I noticed within the last few days a periodicity in the bandwidth usage graphs for the whole network that goes back for at least a month and seems to reflect what Olaf described, except that it looks like the Thursday to Friday midnight is the one that doesn't dip as much. I have no explanation, but then I seem to mostly be the subject rather than the source of conspiracy theories ;>)
Cf. http://www.noreply.org/tor-running-routers/totalTrafficMonthly.html aloha, Paul On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:55:57PM -0400, Ringo Kamens wrote: > Are the spikes related to any particular site? It could be somebody is > wgeting an entire site and specifying you as the exit or something > like that. > Comrade Ringo Kamens > > On 7/12/07, Andrew Del Vecchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Are you using any of the bandwidth controls? If so, that may be about > >the time that your exit node runs out of bandwidth. Mine would only > >take 3-4 hrs to run out of bandwidth, I guess because I'm in a high > >traffic area. > > > >~Andrew > > > >Olaf Selke wrote: > >> hi all, > >> > >> I'm looking for an explanation of a strange phenomena showing my > >> OR's traffic stats since weeks. Every night at about midnight local > >> time, which is GMT+2, the bandwidth utilization is dropping down to > >> about 30% peak value. This happens every day of the week besides > >> the night from Wednesday to Thursday. This special night the > >> bandwidth utilization doesn't vary. Attached you'll find the > >> traffic and cpu load stats for the last week as well as for the > >> last four weeks. I don't think it's related to the provider's IP > >> network, peerings or upstreams. It really looks like a behavior of > >> TOR itself. > >> > >> Are there any explanations around? Maybe some conspiracy theories? > >> ;-) > >> > >> regards, Olaf > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > >Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > >iD8DBQFGloaUgwZR2XMkZmQRAtp9AJ9fATnG+xTRfLkpKfiYagwtj8IiiQCdEzS/ > >Tcu2BfcFthXMtchiiraCJVs= > >=zAyj > >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > >
