On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 01:56:16PM +1000, teor wrote:
On 10 Aug 2017, at 13:36, Roger Dingledine arma@mit.edu wrote:
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/9695DFC35FFEB861329B9F1AB04C46397020CE... https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/F2044413DAC2E02E3D6BCF4735A19BCA1DE972... https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/BD6A829255CB08E66FBE7D3748363586E46B38... https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/74A910646BCEEFBCD2E874FC1DC997430F9681... https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/7EA6EAD6FD83083C538F44038BBFA077587DD7... all show a big increase in sent bytes starting at the end of July.
It isn't growth in Tor users, since those have stayed relatively flat in the last two weeks.
And the new rate seems to be the new normal -- it's showing no signs of going back to the old rate.
I would assume it's outgoing directory stuff, since that's most of what dir auths do.
Any guesses?
In July, Tor 0.3.0 became the most common relay version in the network, growing at quite a rapid rate:
https://metrics.torproject.org/versions.html
There doesn't seem to be any corresponding Tor Browser release in that timeframe:
3 July: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-702-released 8 August: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-704-released
2 July is when deb.torproject.org switched to 0.3.0.
nusenu noted it here: https://twitter.com/nusenu_/status/884128686764687361
I added a line already to https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/MetricsTimeline