[tor-bugs] #21345 [Core Tor/Tor]: Do relays count dir reqs as completed before they're complete?

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#21345: Do relays count dir reqs as completed before they're complete?
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 Reporter:  arma          |          Owner:
     Type:  task          |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium        |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.3.1.x-final
Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal        |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                |  Actual Points:
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 Reviewer:                |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by dcf):

 arma, these other tickets might be relevant to your investigation.

 comment:13:ticket:21014: Turkey graphs increased during a Tor block.
 Hypothesis is that interrupted downloads are inflating the perceived
 number of directory requests.
 > #18203 is a proposal to base direct-user counts on directory responses,
 rather than directory requests. Doing that might solve this overcounting
 issue. (Apparently bridge counts are already based on responses.)

 #18203: has one reason why bridges and relays could be counted
 differently.
 > We're using the number of responses to estimate bridge users but the
 number of requests to estimate direct users.

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