Re: [tor-talk] Why is there a huge gap between Total BW retrieved by Stem, Total shown on Tor Metrics and in http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/?

2015-03-29 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 03/29/2015 06:07 PM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > Relays report a bandwidth history in their extra-info descriptors. > You'll have to sum up all values for a given day to obtain the daily > total and compute the daily average. But beware of duplicates. I'm > afraid this is not exactly trivial to c

[tor-talk] Tor-ramdisk 20150322 released

2015-03-29 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone I want to announce to the list that a new release of tor-ramdisk is out. Tor-ramdisk is a uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in an environment that maximizes security and privacy. Security is enhanced by hardening the kernel and bina

Re: [tor-talk] Why is there a huge gap between Total BW retrieved by Stem, Total shown on Tor Metrics and in http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/?

2015-03-29 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/03/15 11:39, Anonymous Kyoto wrote: > Thank you Dr. Karsten for your answer. Following your instruction, > I am now understanding meaning of three terms: "advertised > bandwidth", "bandwidth history", and "consensus weight" on Metrics. > So pleas

Re: [tor-talk] Why is there a huge gap between Total BW retrieved by Stem, Total shown on Tor Metrics and in http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/?

2015-03-29 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi Anonymous Kyoto. I'm having a tough time following this thread but it's an understandable point of confusion, the bandwidth stats are indeed odd. For Stem's part it just uses the same terminology as the directory specification... https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n380

Re: [tor-talk] Why is there a huge gap between Total BW retrieved by Stem, Total shown on Tor Metrics and in http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/?

2015-03-29 Thread Anonymous Kyoto
Thank you Dr. Karsten for your answer. Following your instruction, I am now understanding meaning of three terms: "advertised bandwidth", "bandwidth history", and "consensus weight" on Metrics. So please let me link those term with terms in Stem, and please correct me if I am wrong cos I am using S

Re: [tor-talk] Why is there a huge gap between Total BW retrieved by Stem, Total shown on Tor Metrics and in http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/?

2015-03-29 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/03/15 06:38, Anonymous Kyoto wrote: > Hi all, ① I just try fetching some information in the descriptors > consensus from directory authorities via Stem library. After > fetching and sum up the bandwidth, I got this number: 30841602 > kilobytes, w