[tor-relays] Bandwidth Authority PID Feedback Experiment #2 Starting

[Sebastian Urbach]

Am Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:32:19 -0800
schrieb Mike Perry <mikeperry at torproject.org>:

Hi,

> Just to be sure, I decided to shut off the experiment on Sunday at 3pm
> US Pacific time anyways. It looks like the performance has in fact
> gotten worse since then.
> 
> Does this mean the feedback was definitely working? Who the hell
> knows. But it does seem clear that the transition between the two
> states is definitely a rocky one that requires patience and repeated
> trials to sniff out.

Thats exactly what i meant. My impression is that the feedback seems to
be working after all. Why do you want to investigate the transition any
further ? If the feedback is finally working we probably don't need the
transition in the future anymore :-)

> I am going to leave it disabled for another week, just to see how it
> recovers, then turn it back on again, possibly with the addition of
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4730 if I get a hot
> minute, but possibly without it, just to watch the transition again.
> 
> Robert Ransom is quite insistent on the need for this as well:
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4708, but that system
> doesn't really need me to build it, as it can be done independent of
> the bwauths. I also think #4730 is more likely to capture the problem
> we were seeing with fast nodes being fast only sometimes, and it will
> be way less work.
> 
> Thanks for bearing with me, but we still might have a ways to go
> before we really get to the bottom of this one.

Its way less frustrating if you have at least a hunch. But if you are
stuck in the middle of nowhere ...

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Yours sincerely

Sebastian Urbach

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