On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:32:25 +0000, admin wrote: ... > > 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. > > > Nice approach. Would you mind sharing your fingerprint/nickname? I'd love to > look at it with Atlas.
Atlas is too coarse to see that... or rather it looks like it doesn't believe in traffic that exceed the advertized bandwidth: http://atlas.torproject.org/?#details/26220AEA188B8D0E47BB541E1A616EB3AD70295F My graphs look like (not the near realtime one; just a sample): http://ch.iocl.org/tor/relay.png There you have the overruns and the following flatline in traffic as long as the 'Burst' is consumed. For comparison, my home dsl, where another relay does a burst (the part where out is half of in+out0: http://ch.iocl.org/tor/dsl.png (I also do plots of volume over time.) ... > Ok, to be brutally honest, I'm obviously too naive at the moment to > understand the actual issue thoroughly. Are you referring to some opportunity > to draw conclusions about specific Tor users and effectively track/"uncover" > them? Yes; although it's probably too little data indeed as long as you don't know where it's going; and most relays (esp. the exits) are too busy to produce discernible patterns this way. ... > We use the stats for a better understanding of total traffic, especially over > time (e.g. I already noticed that there are some adjustments to the config > needed for daily accounting/bandwidthrate/-burst for our higher bw relays > utilizing these very traffic stats - as it seems, while the higher bw relays > are blowing traffic out the door like crazy ;-), especially asurahosting1, > the lower bw relays, e.g. tailoredvps1, do not even utilize the accounting to > its full potential without a slightly higher bw_adv) Indeed. Q is mostly burning its assigned bandwidth (and I wouldn't like to have circuits through it while it is in 'flatline'), while the home relay only sees occasional downloads (flat bursts), and the bridges hardly have any traffic. Andreas -- "Totally trivial. Famous last words." From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800 _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
