On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 07:32:13PM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote:
On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 11:36:27PM -0400, Roger Dingledine 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?
Well, whatever it was, it settled out -- back to normal -- once August ended.
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/9695DFC35FFEB861329B9F1AB04C46397020CE...
The start and end of the doubling of dirauth bandwidth coincide with a temporary doubling or tripling of reported users from the Netherlands:
https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/metrics-country.html?start=2017-07-01&...
There is a somewhat similar pattern in the Seychelles, Lithuania, and Romania, all of which had unexplained increases at the same time as the Netherlands.
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2017-August/000428.html https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/metrics-country.html?start=2017-07-01&... https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/metrics-country.html?start=2017-07-01&... https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/metrics-country.html?start=2017-07-01&...