On 9/16/13 11:07 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote:
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:28:21 +0200 Karsten Loesing karsten@torproject.org wrote:
Why do I tell you this?
Because the old approach uses resources on our poor, already overloaded metrics machine, and I'm planning to shut down the old approach in the very near future. Here's the plan:
- Compute user numbers for 2012 and before; the current numbers start
on January 1, 2013. This is going to take at least until September 23.
What's stopping us from computing user numbers back to the beginning of recorded data?
The new approach uses directory byte histories, so bytes used for answering directory requests, whereas the old approach used the general byte histories. The former is only available since about September 2010. That's how far we can go back in time to compute user numbers in the new approach. Well, maybe a few months later, because not enough relays/bridges reported these directory byte histories right from the start.
All the best, Karsten