Reduced Tor Traffic [was: Re: peculiar server...]

[DM]

Wouldn't the throughput of your server depend on the nodes up and  
downstream of it?

On Sep 9, 2008, at 8:02 PM, Lucky Green wrote:

> Roger Dingledine wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 05:15:15AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>>     That brings us back to something I've already posted on OR- 
>>> TALK, namely,
>>> the apparent slowdown in tor traffic that has reduced the traffic  
>>> through my
>>> tor server by at least 30% and, judging from the reduced peaks  
>>> shown for a lot
>>> of the high-volume servers listed on the torstatus page, the tor  
>>> network at
>>> large.
>>>
>>
>> We're working on plans to start gathering more methodical data about
>> how the network has run and is running, with the goal of being able  
>> to
>> answer questions like this more usefully.
>>
> I am very much looking forward to more diagnostic instrumentation in  
> the
> Tor network. I am seeing a 30% difference in the traffic through
> basically identical servers that are neither bandwidth nor CPU limited
> with identical uptimes. Something about the path selection appears to
> lead to favor one server over another.
>
> Also interesting to me is the overall reduced amount of traffic over  
> the
> last few months that I have been seeing with my middleman nodes. The
> most likely explanation is that the overall Tor network capacity is  
> exit
> node bound and that middleman nodes have grown disproportionately over
> time. Still, it sure would be nice to be able to perform rigorous
> analysis on the network.
>
> --Lucky