On 21 Aug 2017, at 14:05, David Fifield david@bamsoftware.com wrote:
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.
We merged a fallback directory mirror change to 0.2.8 and later in mid-May, but I think that's too far back. (The actual releases were up to a month later.)
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21564
If we want to reduce the load on authorities, we can backport this change, which makes clients try fallbacks before authorities:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17750
It's been in master (0.3.2) for almost 2 months now.
T -- Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)
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