On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 11:01:37AM -0400, Cecylia Bocovich wrote:
On 2022-09-22 11:24, David Fifield wrote:
There is increased usage of the snowflake-01 bridge since yesterday, likely related to protests/shutdowns in Iran. The 4 load-balanced tor instances, which recently were at about 60% CPU at the steady state, are currently near 100%.
I am planning to increase the number of instances today.
It looks like we're also reaching proxy capacity again for the first time in a while.
I've attached a visualization of available proxies that are compatible with all types of client NATs. You can see in the first image that the number of idle proxies has gone to zero and all available proxies are being matched. The second image shows spikes in the number of clients denied a working proxy.
The depletion of this proxy pool could be due to the high amount of mobile network usage, since these networks are likely to have complex and restrictive NAT topologies.
Besides recruiting more proxies, could we stretch the existing unrestricted proxies further? When a proxy finds its own NAT type to be unrestricted, it could increase its polling frequency and/or concurrent capacity.