[tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
I have two relays on the same Gb/s connection. I followed the optimization tips offered in another thread, and think I have things running reasonably well. What I don't understand is why the Guard flag keeps flapping back and forth on both relays. https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/89B9AE4C778DE44AFFAB791093E19979616E69C4 https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/11A579CC6CEE644A390704977B70CBA8D8347783 If you look at the 1 week graph of weights, you'll see what I mean. I haven't been able to find any documentation or explanation for this behavior. Anyone have any thoughts on why this might be happening, or any pointers on how to further investigate? ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
Both relays are showing low BWauth-measured bandwidth and are below the 2000 threshold for the Guard flag. Recently BWauths were offline and the consensus algorithm reverted to self- measure. During that period the relays were above the 2000 threshold and were assigned Guard. But even the self-measure was very low for a gigabit link in a tier-1 network (Quest). Some more tuning work is probably needed to get performance up higher. Possibly network issues are at work. If a low-end consumer-grade router or firewall is in the picture, it could be the cause of the problem. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
You might start with running SpeedTest via the Python script to see how the network performance looks: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/speedtest-cli/ ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
First, I am assuming you are running bare-metal on a system and not in a virtualized server--everything below is premised on that. Do not expect a virtual server or Linux container to perform well as a high- capacity Tor relay. It's possible to configure a high-performance VM, but this is an esoteric art and one is better off renting a small dedicated physical server than going that route. Your story of a relay setup that should measure fast by all apparent metrics but is given terrible rankings by BWauths is common this year. BWauths scripts are known to be buggy, though supposedly have been improved very recently. 'longclaw' just came back online with the "latest" code, but after starting out with a failure to measure 2000 relays two days ago, it's still running 1000 shy of the full population: https://consensus-health.torproject.org/#bwauthstatus Scroll down a little and you will see 'longclaw' is unique in voting 976 relays not-guard and 1709 relays not-fast. That seems a more serious issue than cold start glitching IMO, and is not impressive if that is what it really is. A fifth BWauth is said to be arriving soon and it is said that it will help. Your relays currently are measured thusly: greendream848 longclaw-w Bandwidth=1694 Measured=986 gabelmoo-w Bandwidth=1694 Measured=347 maatuska-w Bandwidth=1694 Measured=874 moria1 -w Bandwidth=1694 Measured=1550 spacequeen974 longclaw-w Bandwidth=1698 Measured=493 gabelmoo-w Bandwidth=1698 Measured=970 maatuska-w Bandwidth=1698 Measured=1930 moria1 -w Bandwidth=1698 Measured=2130 You can see future and past reports of these in https://collector.torproject.org/recent/relay-descriptors/votes/ https://collector.torproject.org/archive/relay-descriptors/votes/ where longclaw is 23D15D9. . . gabelmoo is ED03BB6. . . maatuska is 49015F7. . . moria1 is D586D18. . . That the measurements are all in the same ballpark does indicate that some subtle issue with the network and/or equipment may be at work and the BWauths may not be at fault. But many have complained that nothing they do seems to work. If the firewall is performing stateful packet inspection or any kind of DPI (deep packet inspection) disable that for all incoming and outgoing Tor traffic. It's all encrypted anyway so there's no point, and DPI can drag down performance big-time. The directory traffic is unencrypted but I've never heard of a firewall with stateful rules for the Tor directory protocol. If you can put the system directly on the public IP address with no firewall or local-rack router I recommend doing this. Just make sure iptables are set to protect login and other non-tor access. Either that or disable iptables and strip the server down so that nothing but the 'tor' process and 'ssh' are running, and configure 'ssh' to accept only certificate authentication (be sure to set and test the cert auth before applying the setting). Check for minimized listeners with lsof -Pn | fgrep LISTEN The email daemon should stay up to handle alarms, just be sure it listens on 127.0.0.1. Likewise anything else that is absolutely necessary. Use *Port and *Policy settings in torrc to lock down control and socks access to the daemon. One notable sysctl that matters for high-capacity relays is net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_checksum = 0 though having this enabled would not cause the current poor measurements. You should change this setting: net.ipv4.tcp_no_metrics_save = 1 turning this off was to work around a very- long-ago kernel bug that is fixed everywhere. Turning it on improves performance. You might try net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 25 4194304 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 375000 4194304 which will cause the congestion window to get to full size a bit quicker, and these net.core.somaxconn = 1024 net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 524288 net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle = 0 net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 600 which increase various limits for fast networks, lots of connections. Make sure these defaults values are active and have not been changed to non-default by /etc/sysctl.conf: net.ipv4.tcp_moderate_rcvbuf = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = cubic And try adding TXQUEUELEN=10 to the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX for the interface(s) where tor runs. Manually activated with ip link set qlen 10 dev ethX ip link show dev ethX Finally make sure the kernel is of a vintage with the Google-advocated connection-start congestion-window increase: https://lwn.net/Articles/427104/ http://samsaffron.com/archive/2012/03/01/why-upgrading-your-linux-kernel-will-make-your-customers-much-happier http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=442b9635c569fef038d5367a7acd906db4677ae1 If you end up implementing any of the above and it works please describe the results in tor-relays
[tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
Ah, forgot to calculate the default TCP windows for you link speed rather than mine. So that's 12500 bytes/sec ( 1 gigabit / sec ) * 25 milliseconds or 3125000 (for read) * 40 milliseconds or 500 (for write) net.core.rmem_max = 16777216 net.core.wmem_max = 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 3125000 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 500 16777216 The 25 and 40 milliseconds are my guess at roughly the faster and more middle ping times within the domestic US Internet. This just gets each connection started net.ipv4.tcp_moderate_rcvbuf = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 1 cause the IP stack to very quickly establish precise values for the transmit and receive TCP windows. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
comments backward, but the sysctls are correct * 25 milliseconds or 3125000 (for write) * 40 milliseconds or 500 (for read) ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
One more errata: The sense of this is negative, so the current setting you have is correct: net.ipv4.tcp_no_metrics_save = 0 The double-negative got me. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
>I had already run tests with both speedtest-cli >and iperf3. This server consistently achieves 200 >to 300 Mb/s in both directions, with both relays >still running, and on some runs is hitting over >800 Mb/s. Final caveats: If the server is on a shared gigabit link, performance may not improve. The difference between a dedicated gigabit and a shared gigabit is immense. One expects an ISP to load a shared GB links as heavily as possible--I.E. up to the point where customers complain and terminate service. True dedicated gigabit links are expensive. If it's running in a VPS that's showing a gigabit link speed, the number is fiction. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
>. . .have physical access to the . . . ONT. > Doubt this is the case, but on the off chance that the ONT is configured to flow IP traffic over a coaxial cable attached to a CPE router (customer premise equipment), the configuration should be changed to deliver data over a Gigabit Ethernet directly to a good-quality GBE switch provided by you. New eight-port Netgears are surprisingly good managed switches for around $100. For under $600 you can purchase used 24-or-48-port Nortel/Avaya 5510/5520 switches on eBay. Though old, these enterprise grade switches have astounding performance characteristics due to the Broadcom silicon switch-fabric chipset. Were around $7000 new when they were current-gen. All above switches have VLAN support so one switch can operate as multiple isolated networks. I run a Verizon FiOS 75/75 and the default setup is for Internet traffic to pass to a Verizon supplied Actiontec router over a coax cable. Fortunately I hung out with the installer and found out up front--had it switched to the GBE from the outset. For any VZ customers reading this, note that you can connect the Actiontec to your network so it can obtain TV programming information. The coax will continue to carry video and phone data which are on separate fiber optic wavelengths/channels. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
>The problem is likely that your ISP is routing >some traffic via an overloaded peering point. Running traceroute -w 1 -q 5 -A 1400 may provide more detail on this issue. The -A option causes 'traceroute' to show Autonomous System numbers with each route hop, where ASNs are Internet routing domains associated with different network providers. One can readily see where big increases in latency are occurring along the path and what peerings are associated with it. Note that some big increases are justified--such as with a hop over a transatlantic cable. Setting -q 5 (or bigger) causes traceroute to attempt each hop that many times. If you see asterisk characters, that's packet loss and may indicate congestion points. Setting the packet size to 1400 will increase the probability that network congestion will impact the results. Try pulling up https: // torstatus dot blutmagie dot de which shows IPs together with other relay attributes and experiment tracing to various major relays. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
[apologies to all for thread-breaking, am really going on hiatus but the horror-show performance GBE topic was too darn interesting--last post I promise!] >I would call it a dedicated gigabit link. This is >probably up for debate. The provider's overall >capacity is very likely not [number of customers] >x [1 Gb/s] but I've never witnessed signs of >throttling or over-subscription. Pulling a whois on the IP 184.100.166.110 and a quick Google turned up that you are probably a bleeding-edge subscriber to this new Quest service: https://www.centurylink.com/fiber/ Running a filter on Blutmagie hostname contains quest shows that your relays are, by a huge margin, the fastest of about a dozen. My advice is that this QWest service is third-rate and rather than bleeding for the length of the contract, run for the hills! If you are still in the 1-month cancellation period (relays are about a month old), terminate the service immediately and place an order for Verizon FiOS. FiOS costs more, but sells real bandwidth instead of imaginary bandwidth. You can run a relay on a 75/75 MBit link (like mine) and obtain respectable bandwidth ranking. FiOS goes up to 1/2 GB for about $300-400 per month but the bandwidth is real and the network is good-to-excellent. Either that or switch to leasing a colo server in Germany or some other country where bandwidth is extremely cheap, or perhaps finding a cheap bandwidth colo in the US. QWest GBE looks like a turkey. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
Thanks for the reply. I had already run tests with both speedtest-cli and iperf3. This server consistently achieves 200 to 300 Mb/s in both directions, with both relays still running, and on some runs is hitting over 800 Mb/s. The BWauth and self-measured bandwidths make no sense to me. Watching arm, the averages are always in the X Mb/s range. I've watched these relays serve 10 - 15 Mb/s each, 20 - 30 Mb/s in parallel, during busy times. Right now one is running 1.6 Mb/s average and the other at 2.5 Mb/s, having started these two arm instances about 2 hours ago. I don't find these numbers to be very impressive given the capacity of the connection, but they're still several orders of magnitude better than the measured bandwidth. I don't understand the discrepancy. I'm not using the ISP-provided router. It's not a consumer-grade router either. I hesitate to list the specific model here, but according to its specifications it shouldn't have a problem with the load, and indeed it doesn't appear to be struggling at all. In terms of optimizing the server, I've followed Moritz's guide. It doesn't appear to be dropping connections. At one point I had 5000+ established connections. The CPU and RAM are getting a work-out for sure, but neither is maxed. If there's a bottleneck on my side, I'm not sure where it is. What else should I be checking? And why is actual performance in Mb/s so much higher than the measured bandwidth? By the way, where are you finding the historical BWauth and self-measured bandwidths? ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
P.S. Here's some additional data from the server. I just ran these commands, with the two relays still running. $ speedtest-cli Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Selecting best server based on latency... Hosted by City of Sandy-SandyNet Fiber (Sandy, OR) [1.91 km]: 15.696 ms Testing download speed Download: 719.17 Mbit/s Testing upload speed.. Upload: 166.69 Mbit/s $ sudo sysctl -p net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1 61000 net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 30 net.ipv4.tcp_no_metrics_save = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle = 1 fs.file-max = 64000 $ sudo su debian-tor --shell /bin/bash --command "ulimit -Sn" 64000 $ sudo su debian-tor --shell /bin/bash --command "ulimit -Hn" 64000 $ ss -s Total: 2314 (kernel 0) TCP: 2262 (estab 2195, closed 10, orphaned 38, synrecv 0, timewait 9/0), ports 0 Transport Total IPIPv6 * 0 - - RAW 0 0 0 UDP 6 4 2 TCP 2252 2250 2 INET 2258 2254 4 FRAG 0 0 0 $ uptime 15:06:26 up 7 days, 20:57, 2 users, load average: 0.50, 0.49, 0.59 ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
Thank you for the thoughtful replies. To clear up a few points: - This is a dedicated bare-metal server -- not a VPS, VM or container. I have physical access to the server, router and ONT. - I would call it a dedicated gigabit link. This is probably up for debate. The provider's overall capacity is very likely not [number of customers] x [1 Gb/s] but I've never witnessed signs of throttling or over-subscription. If I plug a laptop directly into the router, I get a 800 - 900 Mb/s bidirectional speed test every time (via dslreports.com/speedtest). If I fire up the Tor Browser Bundle and use the 'EntryNodes' config line to force traffic through my own relays, performance is fine. It's not great mind you, but it's no worse than going through randomly selected guards. In fact, depending on the other middle and exit relays, I'd say my relays work quite well as entries. I've learned from this thread that the Guard flag flapping is a direct result of the low measured bandwidth. I still have no idea why the measured bandwidth is so (terribly, comically) low. The fact that it's so wrong is somewhat telling. Actual performance on the network is like 1000 times better than what the measured bandwidth says! Something feels very broken here. Is it possible for an operator of one of the BWauth nodes to look into this? What happens if you set my relays as 'EntryNodes' and run real-world tests? I will try the other optimizations mentioned here as well, at a slow pace, so I can understand any changes that may occur. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
Original Message From: Green Dream Apparently from: tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Guard flag flapping Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 21:49:16 -0700 > I've learned from this thread that the Guard flag flapping is a direct result > of the low measured bandwidth. I still have no idea why the measured > bandwidth is so (terribly, comically) low. The fact that it's so wrong is > somewhat telling. Actual performance on the network is like 1000 times better > than what the measured bandwidth says! Something feels very broken here. I ran some tests against your node. While performance is generally very good, it has very low performance connecting to some exit nodes. The problem is likely that your ISP is routing some traffic via an overloaded peering point. Some ISPs have been know to do that on purpose, e.g. to make connections to Netflix or Youtube extremely slow while claiming not to do throttling. The bandwidth auths probably downrate the measurement results of your server severely because of those slow connections. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
Original Message From: starlight.201...@binnacle.cx Apparently from: tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-relays] Guard flag flapping Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2015 14:39:48 -0400 > My advice is that this QWest service is third-rate > and rather than bleeding for the length of the > contract, run for the hills! > > If you are still in the 1-month cancellation > period (relays are about a month old), terminate > the service immediately and place an order for > Verizon FiOS. Verizon is one of those ISPs who have played routing games, slowing down Netflix and other traffic that happens to use use the same routing: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/186576-verizon-caught-throttling-netflix-traffic-even-after-its-pays-for-more-bandwidth ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 1:41 AM, wrote: > > I ran some tests against your node. While performance is generally very > good, it has very low performance connecting to some exit nodes. Thanks for running the tests. Which exit nodes led to poor performance? I would like to try to reproduce any performance problems. How would you measure performance between my node and a given exit without being influenced by the properties of the middle relay? You can only set me as an entrynode, and you can't pick a specific middle, so how would you know that the low performance was my node and not the random middle relay? The problem is likely that your ISP is routing some traffic via an > overloaded peering point. This is certainly possible! It's the most compelling theory for me at the moment, although I'm not convinced. > Some ISPs have been know to do that on purpose, e.g. to make connections > to Netflix or Youtube extremely slow while claiming not to do throttling. Fortunately those practices are mostly coming to end in the US, with the FCC's "Open Internet" rules adopted earlier this year. There is a way to file complaints about it, but I'd need more data. The bandwidth auths probably downrate the measurement results of your > server severely because of those slow connections. Probably? How can we investigate further? As I write this one of the relays has the Guard flag again and is averaging around 2 Mb/s. That still stinks, but the measured bandwidth shows only 15.0 Kb/s! Something is still ridiculously off. I'll continue digging. I appreciate all the help thus far. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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> Thanks for running the tests. Which exit nodes led to poor performance? I > would like to try to reproduce any performance problems. I did not record the nodes (they were in Europe). A simple test you could run on your server is fetching directory info from nodes that have directory functionality enabled. wget http://:/tor/server/all e.g.: wget http://176.126.252.11:443/tor/server/all You can get a bandwidth-sorted list of nodes at: https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ There is a column that has the directory port. > How would you measure performance between my node and a given exit without > being influenced by the properties of the middle relay? You can only set me > as an entrynode, and you can't pick a specific middle, You are wrong. :-) You can build arbitrary circuits by hand. There are libraries like Stem, Txtorcon, TorCtl and there is a text based, SMTP-like protocol that you can use directly: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/control-spec.txt > so how would you know that the low performance was my node and not the random > middle relay? Your node would be a non-random middle relay. > > The bandwidth auths probably downrate the measurement results of your > > server severely because of those slow connections. > > Probably? How can we investigate further? AFAIK, the raw bandwidth auth measurements are not published, only the total result. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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> A simple test you could run on your server is fetching directory info > from nodes that have directory functionality enabled. Thanks for the idea. blutmagie offers a CSV list of its current result set, so this ended up being quite easy to automate. I fetched a copy of the CSV to the server: wget https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/query_export.php/Tor_query_EXPORT.csv Then I picked out the columns I cared about, included only Exits with a Dirport, then sorted by the bandwidth column, and grabbed the fastest 50: awk -F \, '{if ($10 == "1" && $8 != "None") print $3, $5, $8}' Tor_query_EXPORT.csv | sort -nr | head -50 > top-50-exits-with-dirport.txt That file now looks like: 34994 37.130.227.133 80 33134 176.126.252.11 443 30736 176.126.252.12 21 30720 77.247.181.164 80 26958 77.247.181.166 80 So we now have the bandwidth, IP, and dirport of the fastest exits. With this list in hand, I just needed to form a proper URL, wget each one, and grep out the transfer speed: for URL in $(awk '{print "http://"; $2 ":" $3 "/tor/server/all"}' top-50-exits-with-dirport.txt); do printf "$URL " && wget $URL -O /dev/null 2>&1 | grep -o "[0-9.]\+ [KM]*B/s"; done The output ends up looking like this (only displaying the first 10 for brevity): http://37.130.227.133:80/tor/server/all 1.17 MB/s http://176.126.252.11:443/tor/server/all 4.54 MB/s http://176.126.252.12:21/tor/server/all 666 KB/s http://77.247.181.164:80/tor/server/all 111 KB/s http://77.247.181.166:80/tor/server/all 330 KB/s http://195.154.56.44:80/tor/server/all 3.65 MB/s http://77.109.141.138:80/tor/server/all 2.20 MB/s http://96.44.189.100:80/tor/server/all 13.4 MB/s http://197.231.221.211:1080/tor/server/all 347 KB/s http://89.234.157.254:80/tor/server/all 295 KB/s I'm not seeing anything immediately, although I need to run it on a larger set. There's no smoking gun so far though. Some of the speeds are a bit slow, but nothing low enough to explain the extremely low measured bandwidth these relays are getting. I think I'll clean this up a bit, put it into an actual script, and try running it on another server on a different AS for comparison. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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> So we now have the bandwidth, IP, and dirport of the fastest exits. With this > list in hand, I just needed to form a proper URL, wget each one, and grep out > the transfer speed: > > http://37.130.227.133:80/tor/server/all 1.17 MB/s > http://176.126.252.11:443/tor/server/all 4.54 MB/s > http://176.126.252.12:21/tor/server/all 666 KB/s > http://77.247.181.164:80/tor/server/all 111 KB/s > http://77.247.181.166:80/tor/server/all 330 KB/s > http://195.154.56.44:80/tor/server/all 3.65 MB/s > http://77.109.141.138:80/tor/server/all 2.20 MB/s > http://96.44.189.100:80/tor/server/all 13.4 MB/s > http://197.231.221.211:1080/tor/server/all 347 KB/s > http://89.234.157.254:80/tor/server/all 295 KB/s > > I'm not seeing anything immediately, although I need to run it on a larger > set. There's no smoking gun so far though. Some of the speeds are a bit slow, > but nothing low enough to explain the extremely low measured bandwidth these > relays are getting. The current BW auth measurement results are around 1.0MBit/s for greendream848. I had a couple of measurements in the 300-500KBit/s range. So, if the auths heavily weight towards low individual measurements, things might make sense. Maybe one of the BW auth guys can comment on how the total measurement result is cooked up!? ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 12:52:21PM -0700, Green Dream wrote: > Some of the speeds are a bit > slow, but nothing low enough to explain the extremely low measured > bandwidth these relays are getting. Note that the bandwidth weights in the consensus are unitless: they are simply weights, and they only matter relative to the other weights. Thinking of them as an attempt at an estimate of the bandwidth of your relay will lead to confusion and unhappiness. :) > I think I'll clean this up a bit, put > it into an actual script Great! --Roger ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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Hi Roger, > On 10.08.2015, at 00:24, Roger Dingledine wrote: > Note that the bandwidth weights in the consensus are unitless: [...] So Atlas is misleading, when you hover your mouse over the Consensus Weight, it says > Weight assigned to this relay by the directory authorities that clients use > in their path selection algorithm. The unit is arbitrary; currently it's > kilobytes per second, but that might change in the future. Cheers, Jannis___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] Guard flag flapping
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > Maybe one of the BW auth guys can comment on how the total > measurement result is cooked up!? https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n2028 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-August/009255.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVyOHtAAoJEFv7XvVCELh0OJoP/AmLyVqHyxfEiKrD6ktRvKwg WhZHWh/6fcITt1U9lWBj9zui5yAA+27ooKgxhLjwywYf9U1EYHtfkA8XGBtcIXD4 Nyh+NON6GI/h5pNvuW8P6mfF2IJQTmu2qcsGlS8cknqZjSx8+kDSJyQAGB5CUCFC n/oLwaApjKwk2C0ZIKecI703nQJMVbHTKegGGcIlqp2NKayGy8u5ZQSSvciBQklL 48lb9rFVJuCvvnv+bHabvH0dQfDtKGKkw6rm4ZQ19R841tRxWDGZ1vHVEVgDLqSr NK/EVAJjkJ2rJq/3yDHYyzxYCBtM5366RScOULoc9BedgCA2NQhKHml+zbIGkKRn pnTSCEJkievPcz7h4KMJEpmfHp1aTlH56LwpBuaQ0DbiJUksi98sWRmK3FErSy/N 7IAm+95nEuRdFl358thd+4ae3iyRj/8mkp7BUEjV70aQ/whe5jqN2tAoaPmYu88G fU5nLi1Ugl/b7B2WLhmVVebMo/oRqwAOvtIsKQLQ5ifoEq1oFOmYxT/LSy1S6YY/ Vurw3LxYNFG2SgyywVq2JevNKU4vHeTT7Y06vyotoBnEgfeC374F46F1U1gL7+To hlPkl1RZIVOX9m1w54wFg0baHAHhYkB2qx0k5465DLyb21Ex7f131LlW6//MmmZa KWEIjBl96UJxBL8CGk7P =BjWP -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays