[tor-dev] Dir auths using 2x bandwidth in last week

[David Fifield]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 01:56:16PM +1000, teor wrote:
> 
> > On 10 Aug 2017, at 13:36, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/9695DFC35FFEB861329B9F1AB04C46397020CE31
> > https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/F2044413DAC2E02E3D6BCF4735A19BCA1DE97281
> > https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/BD6A829255CB08E66FBE7D3748363586E46B3810
> > https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/74A910646BCEEFBCD2E874FC1DC997430F968145
> > https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/7EA6EAD6FD83083C538F44038BBFA077587DD755
> > all show a big increase in sent bytes starting at the end of July.
> > 
> > It isn't growth in Tor users, since those have stayed relatively flat
> > in the last two weeks.
> > 
> > And the new rate seems to be the new normal -- it's showing no signs of
> > going back to the old rate.
> > 
> > I would assume it's outgoing directory stuff, since that's most of what
> > dir auths do.
> > 
> > Any guesses?
> 
> In July, Tor 0.3.0 became the most common relay version in the network,
> growing at quite a rapid rate:
> 
> https://metrics.torproject.org/versions.html
> 
> There doesn't seem to be any corresponding Tor Browser release in that
> timeframe:
> 
> 3 July: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-702-released
> 8 August: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-704-released

2 July is when deb.torproject.org switched to 0.3.0.

nusenu noted it here:
https://twitter.com/nusenu_/status/884128686764687361

I added a line already to
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/MetricsTimeline