[tor-dev] Simplifying load balancing by removing Guard+Exit?

[Tim Wilson-Brown - teor]

> On 25 Sep 2015, at 01:33, Mike Perry <mikeperry at torproject.org> wrote:
> 
> I also hear from large node operators that it is still the Exit flag
> that causes their nodes to really become overloaded, so if that's
> actually true, then it's likely that Exit nodes make poor Guards anyway,
> especially if Exit bandwidth is scarce (which it often is).
> 
> 
> So, what do people think? Does anyone violently disagree with removing
> the Guard flag from Guard+Exit nodes?

I wondered how many guards would we have before and after this change:

1021 Exits

1725 Guards
* 412 Guards that are Exits
* 1313 Guards that aren’t Exits

This would be a 24% decrease in the number of Guards, which seems ok, particularly if they’re not good at being guards anyway.
(Counts from the 2015-09-24 21:00:00 microdesc consensus in my local Tor Browser data folder.)

Would we also want to disable the DirPort on Exits? Or is that a small amount of extra load?
Similarly, what about the HSDir flag?

Tim

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