[tor-bugs] #25687 [Core Tor/Tor]: over-report of observed / self-measure bandwidth on fast hardware -- important to torflow / peerflow

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#25687: over-report of observed / self-measure bandwidth  on fast hardware --
important to torflow / peerflow
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 Reporter:  starlight     |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect        |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium        |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |        Version:  Tor: 0.2.6.10
 Severity:  Normal        |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tor-bwauth    |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by starlight):

 The concern of this ticket is with regard to the observed value published
 by the daemon rather than the Torflow calculated vote resulting from it.
 I suspect that changes to measurement logic in the daemon have likely
 reduced or eliminated the error last definitively observed in 2.6.10.  I
 may yet write a monitor to evaluate the quality of daemon measurements.

 Torflow adjusts self-report with the ratio of the measured bandwidth for a
 relay to the average of all measured bandwidths in a manner short on
 nuance.  Wrote about possible ways to address that here:

 https://github.com/torproject/sbws/issues/182#issuecomment-410745893

 Have considered opening a Trac ticket encompassing the ideas, but am
 waiting for an opportune moment at a point where serious comparison work
 is evident.

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