[anti-censorship-team] snowflake proxy operation

[Jacobo Nájera]

Hi!

El 21/06/21 a las 3:34, meskio escribió:
> Hello,
> 
> Quoting Jacobo Nájera (2021-06-20 02:00:03)
>> Since the end of March I have been operating 4 snowflake proxies. So I would
>> like to share my experience on snowflake proxy operation in numbers.
> [...]
>> Hardware details
>>
>> 1. 3072 MiB (2 cores)
>> 2. 1024 MiB  (1 cores)
>> 3.  512  MiB (1 core)
>> 4.  512 MiB  (1 core)
>>
>> Traffic statistics
>>
>> Bandwidth by proxies
>>
>> 1. 48.83 GiB
>> 2. 48.83 GiB
>> 3. 36.73 GiB
>> 4. 28.00 GiB
> 
> They look pretty interesting. 3 and 4 have moved significantly less bandwidth,
> could that be related to having less ram? It looks like 1 and 2 have moved the
> same bandwidth. Maybe the 'ideal' is to have 1024MiB of ram?

I will add systat statistics and back next month

>> Now I am looking for a reliable mechanism or method to update snowflake
>> versions.
> 
> Note that we are working on a debian package:
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/19409
> But it will take some months to get into debian, so it is not really an option
> to update snowflake for now.

:)

Meanwhile I'm going to add a tag to the ansible role for update

Thanks, Jacobo