[tor-bugs] #32720 [Core Tor/Tor]: How much bandwidth does a user use to bootstrap and maintain dir info? How has that changed over time?

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#32720: How much bandwidth does a user use to bootstrap and maintain dir info? How
has that changed over time?
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 Reporter:  arma          |          Owner:  nickm
     Type:  task          |         Status:  accepted
 Priority:  Medium        |      Milestone:
Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal        |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  prop312-can   |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:  #33049        |         Points:
 Reviewer:                |        Sponsor:  Sponsor55-can
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Changes (by teor):

 * keywords:   => prop312-can
 * sponsor:   => Sponsor55-can
 * parent:   => #33049


Comment:

 Hi Nick,

 In proposal 312 for Sponsor 55, I want to know how many outbound directory
 connections a relay makes every hour:
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/312-relay-auto-
 ipv6-addr.txt#n429

 (Other Sponsor 55 proposals might need similar counts, and I know proposal
 306 wants to know the number of client directory requests.)

 Can we turn this code into a mergable tor heartbeat log line?

 If this change will take a lot of work, we could get addresses from
 NETINFO cells instead. (But we'd still need some way of making some OR
 connections over IPv6. And the simplest way to do that on a relay is
 outbound directory requests.)

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