[tor-bugs] #31524 [Core Tor/Tor]: GETINFO bw-event-cache spike value(s) in it

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#31524: GETINFO bw-event-cache  spike value(s) in it
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 Reporter:  toralf           |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect           |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium           |      Component:  Core Tor/Tor
  Version:  Tor: 0.4.1.4-rc  |       Severity:  Trivial
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 Discussing with atagar an issue with the bandwidth graph of Nyx yield into
 the fact, that Tor reports 1 or 2 unusal high values when nyx is started.
 After a minute or so the effect is gone and Nyx can scale the y-axis to a
 reasonable value.

 atagar found out, that there are 1 or 2 spike values in it (look for
 3495411062,3952777936) of the debug out out of Nyx:
 {{{
 08/25/2019 21:18:09 [TRACE] Sent to tor: GETINFO bw-event-cache
 08/25/2019 21:18:09 [TRACE] Received from tor: 250-bw-event-
 cache=1374134393,1426052109 20086925,20125282 21800116,21982023
 21443601,21381953 21284145,21223794 20736818,20840129 20095450,20002302
 20327971,20091436 18481818,18770265 20642518,20484788 17916670,17984439
 21675050,21693959 21112734,20784723 19053526,19193284 19295884,19489502
 21443785,21575604 21134294,21020113 24810387,24663932 21866896,22876759
 22146840,22135880 21265637,21323808 20355415,20195913 22161894,22076797
 23243894,23320227 22162244,22280711 20837266,20883852 21569369,21709237
 19729547,19565307 19509953,19770894 20445427,20681393 21164201,22030989
 23182698,23054018 22427910,22683231 24570368,24540675 23788945,23736745
 24326209,24063010 23491274,23547576 24465451,24291718 23117418,23200615
 22771292,22946982 23969237,23981784 23612713,23562155 23382374,23423884
 20351264,20211681 21590861,21769434 21812207,21644025 23301464,23486635
 23190866,23611494 25596210,25579703 23296743,23781312 24948896,24956987
 25415713,25555740 26407789,26504165 25006181,25166607
 3495411062,3952777936 28124111,26406950 26007090,26935060
 26897763,26935089 26866687,27170833 28168859,26699345 25750280,26406950
 27570110,26935089 28007323,26935089 26590862,26935089 28579673,26935089
 112518425,114606735 27113917,27462685 26127629,26406921 79812696,79748989
 25846716,26896706 29074858,26973472 24947719,26935089 27687620,26864938
 25539933,26838674 27171107,27068897 27140138,26879337 26899976,26495460
 25950990,26844241 28442790,27025937 26116568,26829132 27827545,26960905
 27035490,26415775\n250 OK
 }}}

 Just a guess: The 2 affected relays have about 20 - 40 MByte/sec bw. The
 spike values are often above 3,000,000,000, looking like an arbitrary
 unsigned long int.

 Whilst the severity on the Nyx graph is negligible I do wonder about the
 root cause.

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