[tor-bugs] #32545 [Circumvention/Snowflake]: Perform measurements to concretely understand snowflake throughput and network health

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#32545: Perform measurements to concretely understand snowflake throughput and
network health
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     Reporter:  cohosh                   |      Owner:  (none)
         Type:  task                     |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                   |  Milestone:
    Component:  Circumvention/Snowflake  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                   |   Keywords:  network-health,
                                         |  metrics
Actual Points:                           |  Parent ID:
       Points:                           |   Reviewer:
      Sponsor:  Sponsor28                |
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 We know that there are several proxies that don't seem to work once
 connected (#31960) and that connections are very slow on Windows and
 possible all platforms (#31971).

 It would help to be able to quantify this and actively monitor it. There
 are two things we want to measure: the number of snowflakes that work at
 all, and the throughput of a sample of snowflakes.

 Perhaps something like onionperf can help us out here, but we'll have to
 see whether onionperf works well with snowflake when we get bad proxies or
 disconnect.

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