[tor-relays] Bandwidth Authority PID Feedback Experiment #2 Starting

[Sebastian Urbach]

Am Fri, 9 Dec 2011 19:56:23 -0800
schrieb Mike Perry <mikeperry at torproject.org>:

Hi Mike,

> I do not fully understand the cause of it yet, but I did find a rather
> nasty bug in the treatment of Guard nodes, where we were not properly
> using the "bwauthmercy" consensus param for them, and were punishing
> slow guards through multiple rounds of negative feedback. This could
> skew the metrics data, and could alter the flow of traffic through the
> rest of the network, but there may be other issues at work, too :/.

Im anxious to here more about that issue because i running a guard ;-)

> I am going to wait until the Guard numbers recover from the bug, which
> should take 24-48hrs, and then dig deeper next week if the metrics
> numbers still persist to be bad.

Seems to get better in the last hours ...

I want to suggest strongly a change for the metrics / performance site.
The displayed default size is 50KB and should be changed to 1MB. 50 KB
ist out of touch with reality for any service i can think of. Could you
please encourage your colleagues to do that ?

Thx.

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Yours sincerely

Sebastian Urbach

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