[tor-dev] Bandwidth scanner: request for feedback

Tom Ritter tom at ritter.vg
Thu Aug 30 21:35:06 UTC 2018


On 29 August 2018 at 16:11, Mike Perry <mikeperry at torproject.org> wrote:
> Ideally, I would like us to perform A/B experiments to ensure that our
> performance metrics do not degrade in terms of average *or* quartile
> range/performance variance. (Ie: alternate torflow results for a week vs
> sbws for a week, and repeat for a few weeks). I realize this might be
> complicated for dirauth operators, though. Can we make it easier
> somehow, so that it is easy to switch which result files they are voting
> with?

Having both voting files means running both scanners at the same time.
Depending on one's pipes, that might skew the results from the
scanners.

-tom


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