[or-cvs] mention bandwidth-observed in the tor spec

Roger Dingledine arma at seul.org
Sat Sep 25 06:27:01 UTC 2004


Update of /home/or/cvsroot/doc
In directory moria.mit.edu:/home2/arma/work/onion/cvs/doc

Modified Files:
	tor-spec.txt 
Log Message:
mention bandwidth-observed in the tor spec
thanks to duck for pointing out this omission


Index: tor-spec.txt
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RCS file: /home/or/cvsroot/doc/tor-spec.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.64
retrieving revision 1.65
diff -u -d -r1.64 -r1.65
--- tor-spec.txt	9 Aug 2004 07:41:25 -0000	1.64
+++ tor-spec.txt	25 Sep 2004 06:26:59 -0000	1.65
@@ -625,12 +625,18 @@
       directory-related HTTP connections.  If any port is not supported, the
       value 0 is given instead of a port number.
 
-   "bandwidth" bandwidth-avg bandwidth-burst
+   "bandwidth" bandwidth-avg bandwidth-burst bandwidth-observed
 
       Estimated bandwidth for this router, in bytes per second.  The
-      "average" bandwidth is the volume per second that the OR is willing to
-      sustain over long periods; the "burst" bandwidth is the volume that
-      the OR is willing to sustain in very short intervals.
+      "average" bandwidth is the volume per second that the OR is willing
+      to sustain over long periods; the "burst" bandwidth is the volume
+      that the OR is willing to sustain in very short intervals.  The
+      "observed" value is an estimate of the capacity this server can
+      handle.  The server remembers the max bandwidth sustained output
+      over any ten second period in the past day, and another sustained
+      input.  The "observed" value is the lesser of these two numbers.
+
+      [bandwidth-observed was not present before 0.0.8.]
 
    "platform" string
 



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