[tor-bugs] #2395 [Tor Client]: Break Wed and Wee weights into two classes each

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#2395: Break Wed and Wee weights into two classes each
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 Reporter:  mikeperry    |       Owner:     
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:     
Component:  Tor Client   |     Version:     
 Keywords:               |      Parent:     
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 In 0.2.2, we added consensus bandwidth-weights to specify how to
 distribute node selection choices for the three positions in a circuit
 among the different node flags (Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit and None). See
 3.4.3 of
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/doc/spec/dir-
 spec.txt
 and
 http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/Sep-2010/msg00016.html. See also the
 original post:
 http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/Jan-2010/msg00012.html

 I added some code to statsplitter.py to display the breakdown of bytes by
 port, using Karsten's extra-info exit ports stats:

 Default exit blutmagie read 503.9M
   other: 56.6% 80: 38.9% 51413: 1.4% 443: 0.7% 4000: 0.6% 49354: 0.5%
 Default exit blutmagie wrote 182.6M
   other: 92.1% 80: 4.0% 51413: 1.6% 24273: 1.2% 53163: 0.4% 443: 0.3%

 Misc Exit Amunet3 read 206.1M
   80: 97.1% 443: 1.6% 8080: 0.6% 81: 0.3% 563: 0.2% other: 0.1%
 Misc Exit Amunet3 wrote 7.5M
   80: 88.0% 443: 9.0% 8080: 1.3% other: 1.3% 8888: 0.2% 81: 0.1%

 Amunet has the non-default exit policy listed in #6 at:
 https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node-minimal-harassment

 Blutmagie has the default.

 So what this tells us is that we may want to devote circuits predicted to
 be used for port 80 or 443 more on the non-default exit policy than for
 the default exit policy to compensate for the fact that these non-default
 exits with normally otherwise get less traffic than their default exit
 policy peers.

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