On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 22:30 +1100, teor wrote:
On 17 Oct 2016, at 22:04, Rob van der Hoeven robvanderhoeven@ziggo.nl wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm on a quest to find the average circuit-creation rate of clients. I looked in path-spec.txt to find an answer, but it wasn't there. So I thought: lets take some measurements using ARM. This got me some strange results. I start ARM, do some browsing, and close my browser. During the browsing ARM reports 3 circuits with ID's: 398, 399 and 400. These circuits are still there 45 minutes after the browser was closed. If I then restart ARM it reports that there are only two circuits, with circuit ID's 405 and 406. It looks to me that ARM does not update the circuits page when old circuits are closed and replaced by new circuits. It's also possible that ARM keeps old circuits alive after they are not being used anymore by my Tor proxy.
It seems more likely that this is a refresh issue, either in arm or in the tor event code.
Can you replicate it with the latest stable versions of tor and arm?
Note: I use ARM version: 1.4.5.0, Tor version: 0.2.5.12
That's a very old version of tor. I wouldn't use it to measure anything, we've made significant improvements in the last few years.
ARM version 1.4.5 seems to be the latest version. I checked out NYX but failed to get it running (Unable to load nyx's internal configurations: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/home/rob/src/nyx/nyx/settings')
Did test with Tor version 0.2.9.3-alpha-dev. Same problem....
Regards, Rob. https://hoevenstein.nl