[tor-relays] [tor-talk] Platform diversity in Tor network [was: OpenBSD doc/TUNING]

[Tom van der Woerdt]

grarpamp schreef op 07/11/14 08:46:
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:43 AM, David Serrano <tor at dserrano5.es> wrote:
>> On 2014-11-05 23:58:43 (-0500), grarpamp wrote:
>>>
>>> The real problem below is the 96% allocation of opensource to
>>> Linux and 4% to Other opensource.
>>
>>> Someone should really do an analysis of platform vs. exit bandwidth
>>> as well. Anyone?
>>
>> Here ya go. Observed bandwidth per OS in relays having the exit flag:
>>
>> 93.62% 4459816582 Linux
>>   4.51%  214639363 FreeBSD
>>   1.25%   59672066 Windows
>>   0.25%   11754598 Darwin
>>   0.17%    7896687 Bitrig
>>   0.15%    6964863 OpenBSD
>>   0.06%    3091495 SunOS
>
> This excessive Linux dominance in both node count and
> bandwidth really should be balanced out, like why not?
> I'd expect if some of the big relays switch to any other OS
> that would flatten out the bandwidth part pretty easily. You'd
> have to check say the top 10, 25, 50 or so relays to see to
> what extent they are part of this mess, I'm sure it's similar.

Hi,

I run a bunch of top50 relays (about 5.5% of global exit traffic), I'll 
have a look at converting my setup to OpenBSD - preferably without too 
much downtime.

Tom

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