Re: [tor-relays] How to Run High Capacity Tor Relays

[Paul Syverson <paul.syverson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 04:06:14AM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:08 AM, teor <teor2345@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The 20 July 2015 platform percentages on https://metrics.torproject.org/servers-data.html are:
> > 87.9 Linux
> >  6.9 Windows
> >  4.5 FreeBSD
> >  0.5 Darwin (OS X, OpenDarwin, â)
> >  0.1 Other
> 
> with counts...
> 6042 Linux 83%
>  889 Windows 12%
>  220 FreeBSD 3%
>   71 OpenBSD 1%
>   41 Darwin .5%
>   10 NetBSD .1%
>    5 SunOS
>    4 DragonFly
>    4 Bitrig
>    1 GNU/kFreeBSD
>    1 ElectroBSD
> 
> Market share doesn't really say anything about ability to fill the
> relay role,

Good point. This also may not be the revealing indication of market
share. The distribution can be quite different if the question
is not number of relays per platform but fraction of bandwidth
by platform or probability of being chosen as exit (or guard, etc.)
by platform.

aloha,
Paul

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