Hi devs,
I have been planning to shut down the relay-search service, that was part of the metrics website, for about half a year, and now it's gone:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-December/005948.html
https://metrics.torproject.org/relay-search.html
It was a good service. The main reason for shutting it down was that it required us to keep a full database of relays. And the Tor network has grown quite a bit over time.
Now that the service is gone I was finally able to clean up the metrics database. Here are some numbers from before and after the cleanup with all sizes being rounded GiB:
table | before | after --------------+---------------- bwhist | 13 | 0 descriptor | 6 | 0 dirreq_stats | 10 | 0 statusentry | 67 | 2 ... | | ------------------------------- total | 95 | 3
So, 92 of 95 GiB are gone, simply because we don't need that data anymore. That's much more than I had expected. Almost 97%!
Just in case, and I'm going to watch over this, too: if the metrics website shows you funny numbers in the next couple of days, please let me know.
All the best, Karsten