[tor-relays] Permissible traffic volume log density (was: Announcing the Walla Walla Project)

[Andreas Krey]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:29:46 +0000, admin wrote:
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> Reading your response, I guess that I totally misunderstood Jacob's actual question

As far as I understood Jacob asked you how many traffic data point you
log, and I asked him how many are acceptable. (And pointed out that the
given screen, although showing only apparently monthly numbers, could
be used to get more detailed information by polling it, depending on
the update rate.)

> So, in fact, hourly, daily and monthly stats all get updated hourly on every VPS individually. Unfortunately Atlas does not provide a convenient way to see the total traffic transmitted/received within a day/month etc and as we have monthly traffic limits in place at sponsors, we decided to use vnStat to have an idea about the actual total traffic transmitted/received.

I do similar, but I run a simple cronjob around ifconfig. :-) Also for
seeing the total traffic consumption on my relays (and my home DSL).
I then feed that into gnuplot for some graphs for me to see; and
the interplay of RelayBandwithRate and RelayBandwidthBurst ist
pretty plain to see in there.

There are pretty obvious patterns esp. on low-bandwith relays;
if you collected them all you'd possibly be able to reconstruct
circuit usage. Hence my question how coarse traffic volume logging
should be.

Andreas

-- 
"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800