Hi,
I am using arm to monitor 3 tor nodes running on the same box. On the connection page I get very different results when pressing "c" to get the client locale stats:
Node A - nothing happens Node B - the window with the client locale stats is displayed Node C - a message "Usage stats aren't available yet, press any key..." is displayed
Under which conditions are the stats available?
Regards,
Klaus
Hi Klaus. The client count dialog works as follows:
- If we are running as a bridge we prepopulate the number of clients we've seen per locale by calling "GETINFO status/clients-seen". If we aren't then we don't start with any results.
- Whenever we get a new inbound connection that can't be identified as a relay we increment the number of people we've seen from that locale. If we're a guard then this isn't quite right since the inbound connection might be a bridge, but from the guard's perspective they should be one and the same.
Node A - nothing happens
This happens because you're neither a bridge nor do you have the Guard flag, so it doesn't make sense for you to be receiving client connections.
Node B - the window with the client locale stats is displayed
Yay
Node C - a message "Usage stats aren't available yet, press any key..." is displayed
That happens when there aren't any stats to be displayed - maybe clients aren't using you?
Cheers! -Damian
Damian Johnson atagar1@gmail.com wrote on 20.12.2011:
Hi Klaus. The client count dialog works as follows:
- If we are running as a bridge we prepopulate the number of clients
we've seen per locale by calling "GETINFO status/clients-seen". If we aren't then we don't start with any results.
- Whenever we get a new inbound connection that can't be identified as
a relay we increment the number of people we've seen from that locale. If we're a guard then this isn't quite right since the inbound connection might be a bridge, but from the guard's perspective they should be one and the same.
Node A - nothing happens
This happens because you're neither a bridge nor do you have the Guard flag, so it doesn't make sense for you to be receiving client connections.
Node B - the window with the client locale stats is displayed
Yay
Node C - a message "Usage stats aren't available yet, press any key..." is
displayed
That happens when there aren't any stats to be displayed - maybe clients aren't using you?
Thanks Damian. That exactly explains why nothing happens on node A. The node not yet have the guard flag. So it is just a matter of time.
Best regards,
Klaus
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