[tor-bugs] #3338 [Analysis]: Why do our user graphs have these huge spikes?

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#3338: Why do our user graphs have these huge spikes?
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 Reporter:  arma      |          Owner:     
     Type:  task      |         Status:  new
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Component:  Analysis  |        Version:     
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Comment(by arma):

 In further poking, the fractions that relays are advertising are assuming
 that all clients use the weights in the consensus, which only started
 happening in mid 0.2.2. So all the 0.2.1 clients are fetching directory
 stuff according to different weights -- before the WEIGHT_FOR_DIR rule
 existed.

 For example, here are the most popular directory mirrors for my Tor client
 that's running master:
 {{{
 11965430.000000 nononononon
 12127490.000000 Merav
 12439200.000000 blutmagie4
 14261280.000000 blutmagie3
 15700000.000000 rueckgrat
 16100000.000000 CCN1
 16608960.000000 rockhall
 17300000.000000 Tor2YitCC
 17718560.000000 greyunknown
 18900000.000000 Lifuka
 19400000.000000 c00psTOR2
 20600000.000000 Tor3YitCC
 21445940.000000 trusted
 23800000.000000 c00psTOR
 24900000.000000 pink
 27600000.000000 Pandora15
 29900000.000000 Pandora24
 30200000.000000 Pandora
 36000000.000000 Pandora20
 36600000.000000 Pandora23
 36700000.000000 Pandora22
 37600000.000000 Pandora17
 51000000.000000 oilsrv1
 }}}

 But for example, trusted is a weight 44819472 for my 0.2.1 client. I
 haven't done enough scripting to actually compare, but I think some of
 these numbers will be quite different. And even for the case where the
 weights are the same (when the relay doesn't have the Guard or the Exit
 flag), the *rest* of the weights will be different.

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