Re: magic Wednesday

[Paul Syverson <syverson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I noticed within the last few days a periodicity in the bandwidth
usage graphs for the whole network that goes back for at least a month
and seems to reflect what Olaf described, except that it looks like
the Thursday to Friday midnight is the one that doesn't dip as much.
I have no explanation, but then I seem to mostly be the subject
rather than the source of conspiracy theories ;>)

Cf. http://www.noreply.org/tor-running-routers/totalTrafficMonthly.html

aloha,
Paul

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:55:57PM -0400, Ringo Kamens wrote:
> Are the spikes related to any particular site? It could be somebody is
> wgeting an entire site and specifying you as the exit or something
> like that.
> Comrade Ringo Kamens
> 
> On 7/12/07, Andrew Del Vecchio <firefox-gen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >Are you using any of the bandwidth controls? If so, that may be about
> >the time that your exit node runs out of bandwidth. Mine would only
> >take 3-4 hrs to run out of bandwidth, I guess because I'm in a high
> >traffic area.
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> >~Andrew
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> >Olaf Selke wrote:
> >> hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm looking for an explanation of a strange phenomena showing my
> >> OR's traffic stats since weeks. Every night at about midnight local
> >> time, which is GMT+2, the bandwidth utilization is dropping down to
> >> about 30% peak value. This happens every day of the week besides
> >> the night from Wednesday to Thursday. This special night the
> >> bandwidth utilization doesn't vary. Attached you'll find the
> >> traffic and cpu load stats for the last week as well as for the
> >> last four weeks. I don't think it's related to the provider's IP
> >> network, peerings or upstreams. It really looks like a behavior of
> >> TOR itself.
> >>
> >> Are there any explanations around? Maybe some conspiracy theories?
> >> ;-)
> >>
> >> regards, Olaf
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