Karsten Loesing karsten@torproject.org wrote:
On 08/01/16 16:54, Fabian Keil wrote:
Karsten Loesing karsten@torproject.org wrote:
On 07/01/16 18:48, Fabian Keil wrote:
Looking at "Tor metrics - Relays by platform" [0] one could think that the number of "FreeBSD" relays is only slightly lower than the number of "Windows" relays.
It also looks like the number of "other" platforms is constantly zero while the number of "Darwin" relays is unclear (but potentially zero as well).
Obviously that's incorrect:
fk@r500 ~ $sudo -u _tor grep platform /usr/jails/tor-jail/var/db/tor/cached-descriptors | cut -w -f 5 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn 6662 Linux 555 Windows 286 FreeBSD 83 OpenBSD 25 Darwin 10 NetBSD 4 SunOS 4 ElectroBSD 4 Bitrig 2 DragonFly 1 GNU/kFreeBSD 1 CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW
Is it possible that the "Tor metrics" count everything but "Linux" and "Windows" as FreeBSD?
Good question. Not exactly: it's counting everything containing "BSD" as "FreeBSD". Ugh. I agree that this is misleading. How about we change the graph legend to "BSD"?
Without further explanation that seems still a bit misleading because "DragonFly" and "Bitrig" are BSDs, too. In fact, "DragonFly" is short for "DragonFly BSD" so even a graph legend like "platforms that contain 'BSD'" would be misleading for someone who does not know the actual platform strings.
Well, it still seems like an improvement over the current situation where we're wrongly classifying non-FreeBSD-BSDs as FreeBSD.
Oh, and "platforms that contain 'BSD' wouldn't fit in the legend anyway.
Should I proceed with my earlier suggestion to change "FreeBSD" to "BSD" in the legend?
Yes, please. I agree that it's an improvement.
Fabian