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On Wednesday, May 4, 2022 11:31:05 PM CEST Mike Perry wrote:
Tor 0.4.7.7-stable contains a very important performance improvement, called Congestion Control.
You can read more about this improvement here: https://blog.torproject.org/congestion-contrl-047/
The TL;DR is that users of Tor 0.4.7 will experience faster performance when using Exits or Onion Services that have upgraded to 0.4.7.
Is that why the advertised bandwidth jumps well over 100 MB for some relays?
Yes, we believe that's caused by the congestion control arriving in 0.4.7. You see as well a general jump in advertised bandwidth:
https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html?start=2022-02-04&end=2022-...
That's similar to the flooding experiments we did earlier last year, which you might recall, and is expected.
On April 25, for some, it went up steeply. Some have even overtaken XOR, the fastest exit so far. Or is a bwauth on steroid?
Nope. No bwauth on steroids. :)
Georg
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/flag:exit%20
by the way: Buster also has a kernel upgrade. Upgrade Tor and reboot go well together.
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