[metrics-bugs] #30798 [Metrics/Onionperf]: Develop and deploy tgen model resembling ping

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#30798: Develop and deploy tgen model resembling ping
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     Reporter:  karsten            |      Owner:  metrics-team
         Type:  enhancement        |     Status:  new
     Priority:  High               |  Milestone:
    Component:  Metrics/Onionperf  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal             |   Keywords:
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 At last week's tor-scaling meeting we discussed developing a second tgen
 model that resembles a ping service and deploying an OnionPerf instance
 with that model.

 The current default tgen model in OnionPerf makes a new download every
 five minutes. That's a tiny request with a response of 50 KiB or 1 MiB or
 5 MiB.

 This new model would send a tiny request once per second for, say, five
 minutes, and receive a tiny response back to each of these requests.

 We wouldn't have to write analysis code that produces something like a
 .tpf file right now but could start with analyzing the raw logs for this
 experiment and extract some hopefully useful visualizations.

 I could deploy this new model on my local machine (if it uses an onion
 service).

 Raising priority to high, because it would be great to ideally get this
 deployed before All Hands.

 Thoughts?

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