[tor-dev] Tor metrics: Questionable relays-by-platform accounting

[Fabian Keil]

Karsten Loesing <karsten at torproject.org> wrote:

> On 08/01/16 16:54, Fabian Keil wrote:
> > Karsten Loesing <karsten at torproject.org> wrote:
> >   
> >> On 07/01/16 18:48, Fabian Keil wrote:  
> >>> Looking at "Tor metrics - Relays by platform" [0] one could
> >>> think that the number of "FreeBSD" relays is only slightly
> >>> lower than the number of "Windows" relays.
> >>> 
> >>> It also looks like the number of "other" platforms is
> >>> constantly zero while the number of "Darwin" relays is unclear
> >>> (but potentially zero as well).
> >>> 
> >>> Obviously that's incorrect:
> >>> 
> >>> fk at r500 ~ $sudo -u _tor grep platform 
> >>> /usr/jails/tor-jail/var/db/tor/cached-descriptors | cut -w -f 5
> >>> | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn 6662 Linux 555 Windows 286 FreeBSD
> >>> 83 OpenBSD 25 Darwin 10 NetBSD 4 SunOS 4 ElectroBSD 4 Bitrig 2 
> >>> DragonFly 1 GNU/kFreeBSD 1 CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW
> >>> 
> >>> Is it possible that the "Tor metrics" count everything but
> >>> "Linux" and "Windows" as FreeBSD?  
> >> 
> >> Good question.  Not exactly: it's counting everything containing
> >> "BSD" as "FreeBSD".  Ugh.  I agree that this is misleading.  How
> >> about we change the graph legend to "BSD"?  
> > 
> > Without further explanation that seems still a bit misleading
> > because "DragonFly" and "Bitrig" are BSDs, too. In fact,
> > "DragonFly" is short for "DragonFly BSD" so even a graph legend
> > like "platforms that contain 'BSD'" would be misleading for someone
> > who does not know the actual platform strings.  
> 
> Well, it still seems like an improvement over the current situation
> where we're wrongly classifying non-FreeBSD-BSDs as FreeBSD.
> 
> Oh, and "platforms that contain 'BSD' wouldn't fit in the legend anyway.
> 
> Should I proceed with my earlier suggestion to change "FreeBSD" to
> "BSD" in the legend?

Yes, please. I agree that it's an improvement.

Fabian
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