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

[teor]

> On 21 Aug 2017, at 14:36, teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 21 Aug 2017, at 14:05, David Fifield <david at bamsoftware.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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, we went from 1% of fallback directory mirrors being down, to about
10% of fallback directory mirrors being down.

See "Fallback Directories Running, Past 90 Days" on:
https://consensus-health.torproject.org/graphs.html
(Needs JS, SVG)

This means that 10% of client requests go straight to directory
authorities. For the other 90%, the first fallback and first directory
authority request happen simultaneously, and the authority often wins
(and gets to supply the client's first consensus).

Deploying #17750 in 0.3.2 (or backporting it to earlier releases)
will fix both these issues:

> If we want to reduce the load on authorities, we can backport this
> change, which makes clients try fallbacks before authorities:
> 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17750
> 
> It's been in master (0.3.2) for almost 2 months now.

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