On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 11:58:22PM -0700, David Fifield wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 05:38:14AM +0200, Markus Ottela via tor-talk wrote: > > The creation of the Onion Service uses tempfile to create a temporary > > directory each time a new Onion Service is spin up, but as per the log > > files, there was only 25 Onion Services created during that time. > > Restarting tor multiple times with a fresh tempdir each time would make > you appear as multiple clients. If you ran 25 copies of the script, then > you would be counted as 25 clients, since each instance of tor would be > making its own separate directory requests. But I don't know if that's > enough to explain the large effect on the estimated number of users. It > depends on how often the scripts were restarting tor. The user counts > are built on the assumption that a tor client makes a directory request > every 144 minutes, on average. If the script restarted tor more > frequently than that, it would be counted as more clients than 1. But to > count as even 10,000 clients, each of the 25 script instances would have > to be restarting tor every 144*60*25 / 10000 = 21 seconds on average.
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 06:09:24PM +0200, Markus Ottela via tor-talk wrote: > Again I'm not sure that's what this is about, but both the start time, and > the most recent major downtime spikes match. I've killed testing, let's see > if it returns to normal; I think there's enough data to open a ticket about > my issue anyway. The user counts are still elevated, with data points through 2022-01-16. If you stopped testing on 2022-01-13, it must not have been the main cause. https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2021-10-21&end=2022-01-19&country=fi -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
