> On 21 Aug 2017, at 14:05, David Fifield <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 01:56:16PM +1000, teor wrote: >> >>> On 10 Aug 2017, at 13:36, Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/9695DFC35FFEB861329B9F1AB04C46397020CE31 >>> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/F2044413DAC2E02E3D6BCF4735A19BCA1DE97281 >>> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/BD6A829255CB08E66FBE7D3748363586E46B3810 >>> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/74A910646BCEEFBCD2E874FC1DC997430F968145 >>> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/7EA6EAD6FD83083C538F44038BBFA077587DD755 >>> all show a big increase in sent bytes starting at the end of July. >>> >>> It isn't growth in Tor users, since those have stayed relatively flat >>> in the last two weeks. >>> >>> And the new rate seems to be the new normal -- it's showing no signs of >>> going back to the old rate. >>> >>> I would assume it's outgoing directory stuff, since that's most of what >>> dir auths do. >>> >>> Any guesses? >> >> In July, Tor 0.3.0 became the most common relay version in the network, >> growing at quite a rapid rate: >> >> https://metrics.torproject.org/versions.html >> >> There doesn't seem to be any corresponding Tor Browser release in that >> timeframe: >> >> 3 July: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-702-released >> 8 August: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-704-released > > 2 July is when deb.torproject.org switched to 0.3.0. We merged a fallback directory mirror change to 0.2.8 and later in mid-May, but I think that's too far back. (The actual releases were up to a month later.) https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21564 If we want to reduce the load on authorities, we can backport this change, which makes clients try fallbacks before authorities: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17750 It's been in master (0.3.2) for almost 2 months now. T -- Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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