[tor-bugs] #16696 [- Select a component]: BWauth no-consensus fallback logic may need revision

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#16696: BWauth no-consensus fallback logic may need revision
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     Reporter:  starlight             |      Owner:
         Type:  defect                |     Status:  new
     Priority:  major                 |  Milestone:
    Component:  - Select a component  |    Version:
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Changes (by mikeperry):

 * cc: aagbsn, karsten (added)


Comment:

 Can we extract the exact consensuses where the bw auths were down, and
 create an overlay on top of the torperf graphs for 50k, 1MB, and 5MB at
 https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html and
 https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf-failures.html?

 Karsten did this some years ago the last time the bw auths failed, and we
 found that performance worsened by 4-5X when the bw auths were down for
 any significant duration. I'm curious if that's still the case.
 Unfortunately, I think we're currently seeing a lot of on-off flapping
 though, and not significant periods where they remain consistently down.

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