31 Aug
2013
31 Aug
'13
4:58 p.m.
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 11:32:55AM -0500, Pascal wrote:
http://torstatus.blutmagie.de indicates that only 21.4% of Tor nodes are exit nodes. Are we wasting this precious resource by running non-exit traffic through these nodes?
More important than "what percent of nodes are exits" is: what percentage of throughput is provided by exit nodes?
Based on my (probably wrong) hacking at the stats, exit nodes handle a bit over a third of the actual traffic in the Tor network, 36% in the last snapshot I have at hand.
Small nodes tend not to be exits, and exits tend to be quite large (100 Mbps or greater), so limiting exit nodes to only handling exit traffic would actually decrease the overall throughput of the network.
-andy