[or-cvs] r17274: {website} Monthly status report for November. (website/trunk/projects/en)

[kloesing at seul.org]

Author: kloesing
Date: 2008-11-15 14:28:45 -0500 (Sat, 15 Nov 2008)
New Revision: 17274

Modified:
   website/trunk/projects/en/hidserv.wml
Log:
Monthly status report for November.

Modified: website/trunk/projects/en/hidserv.wml
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--- website/trunk/projects/en/hidserv.wml	2008-11-15 09:21:37 UTC (rev 17273)
+++ website/trunk/projects/en/hidserv.wml	2008-11-15 19:28:45 UTC (rev 17274)
@@ -302,9 +302,45 @@
 
 <tr>
   <td>
-    Nov 08
+    <a id="Nov08"></a>
+    <a class="anchor" href="#Nov08">Nov 08</a>
   </td>
   <td>
+    <small><em>The performance improvements that were implemented in the
+    last phase have been released in Tor version 0.2.1.7-alpha. Users can
+    download this development version from the Tor homepage and test the
+    improvements with minimal effort. Further, two bugfixes (<a
+    href="http://bugs.noreply.org/flyspray/index.php?id=767&do=details">1</a>,
+    <a href="http://bugs.noreply.org/flyspray/index.php?id=814&do=details">2</a>)
+    that were found in the course of this project have been backported to
+    the stable branch and will be included with the next stable version
+    0.2.0.32.</em></small>
+    <br/>
+    <small><em>The main focus of the past 31 days was to perform new
+    measurements to see whether the improvements are effective or not.
+    Measurements were conducted for two days in the time of November 6th to
+    8th. Unfortunately, the Tor network suffered a serious problem in this
+    time: An expired directory authority certificate produced huge amounts
+    of traffic within the Tor network which <a
+    href="http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Nov-2008/msg00053.html">forced
+    many operators to shut down their relays</a>. A second measurement was
+    performed between 13th and 15th. But results show that the overall
+    network performance is still worse than in June 2008 when the first
+    hidden service measurements have been performed. This becomes visible
+    when comparing requests to the Tor directories which have not been
+    affected by the performance improvements and which exhibit
+    significantly worse performance than before. The effects of performance
+    improvements are visible, but absolute values are not comparable at
+    this time. New measurements will be conducted in December in the hope
+    that the effects of this problem have mitigated.</em></small>
+    <br/>
+    <small><em>Further, there might be a <a
+    href="http://bugs.noreply.org/flyspray/index.php?id=847&do=details">bug</a>
+    in the way how Tor downloads directory information during
+    bootstrapping. Even though this is not related to hidden services, an
+    improvement would benefit hidden service publication, too. Part of the
+    work during the upcoming 30 days will be to investigate this bug.
+    </em></small>
   </td>
 </tr>