[tor-bugs] #13822 [Tor]: Raise ROUTER_REQUIRED_MIN_BANDWIDTH

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#13822: Raise ROUTER_REQUIRED_MIN_BANDWIDTH
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     Reporter:  arma         |      Owner:
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  closed
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.6.x-final
    Component:  Tor          |    Version:
   Resolution:  implemented  |   Keywords:  tor-relay, tor-bridge
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Comment (by arma):

 Replying to [comment:14 isis]:
 > Should I make a different ticket for DirAuths to do some calculation
 like "If the relay has been measured, and it's been around for X months,
 and its measured bandwidth is below N KB/s, then do not include it in the
 consensus"? Sort of like raising the cutoff ratio for the `Fast` flag, but
 rather, relays which are so slow that distributing their descriptors costs
 more bandwidth than those relays provide, rather than merely not getting
 the `Fast` flag, wouldn't be distributed at all.

 If our bwauths were better, I think this would be a good idea. But right
 now our bwauths are outputting really crazy numbers for relays, or no
 numbers at all, so imo the benefit of having the relays in the consensus,
 for debugging (and for comfort of the relay operator), outweighs the cost
 of the directory overhead.

 I guess more broadly you could argue for not including the relays that
 don't have the Fast flag, "since nobody would use them anyway". Hm! :)

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