Am Fri, 9 Dec 2011 19:56:23 -0800 schrieb Mike Perry mikeperry@torproject.org:
Hi Mike,
I do not fully understand the cause of it yet, but I did find a rather nasty bug in the treatment of Guard nodes, where we were not properly using the "bwauthmercy" consensus param for them, and were punishing slow guards through multiple rounds of negative feedback. This could skew the metrics data, and could alter the flow of traffic through the rest of the network, but there may be other issues at work, too :/.
Im anxious to here more about that issue because i running a guard ;-)
I am going to wait until the Guard numbers recover from the bug, which should take 24-48hrs, and then dig deeper next week if the metrics numbers still persist to be bad.
Seems to get better in the last hours ...
I want to suggest strongly a change for the metrics / performance site. The displayed default size is 50KB and should be changed to 1MB. 50 KB ist out of touch with reality for any service i can think of. Could you please encourage your colleagues to do that ?
Thx.