[tor-bugs] #25687 [Core Tor/Tor]: over-report of observed / self-measure bandwidth on fast hardware -- important to torflow / peerflow

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#25687: over-report of observed / self-measure bandwidth  on fast hardware --
important to torflow / peerflow
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 Reporter:  starlight     |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect        |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium        |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |        Version:  Tor: 0.2.6.10
 Severity:  Normal        |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tor-bwauth    |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                |         Points:
 Reviewer:                |        Sponsor:
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Changes (by juga):

 * keywords:   => tor-bwauth
 * cc: juga (added)


Comment:

 This ticket is consistent with what we've observed in ``torflow``: when it
 scale the raw measurements, it uses mostly the observed bandwidth. The
 distribution of the observed bandwidth is almost exponential while the one
 of raw measurements are almost linear, what makes the final bandwidth to
 be read by the dirauths to have an almost exponential distribution too.

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