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Re: [tor-bugs] #24046 [Core Tor]: Building circuits through Fast (actually) relays
#24046: Building circuits through Fast (actually) relays
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Reporter: IgorMitrofanov | Owner: (none)
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: Core Tor | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by arma):
Replying to [comment:4 nikita]:
> So based on the votes, increasing the 100 KB/s threshold won't have much
effect b/c the measured threshold (which I'm assuming is the 12.5th
percentile of consensus weight?) is actually below 100 KB/s.
Yes, correct.
Though, remember that the measurements are unitless weights. They just
mean that somebody with a weight of 40 should get less attention than
somebody with a weight of 60. They *don't* mean that they think the relay
with a weight of 60 should be able to do 60KBytes/s.
> A probably impractical suggestion: could something like TorPerf be used
to decide this threshold? The median *circuit* BW is around 300 KB/s
(https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2017-08-01&end=2017-10-30&source=all&server=public&filesize=5mb),
so having a relay with a lower bandwidth than that will make it very
likely this relay will be a bottleneck for you.
In a world where all of the relays are weighted appropriately, raising the
threshold too much (i.e. discarding too many slower relays) could
counterintuitively *lower* the median circuit bandwidth, because it would
shift more load onto the relays that used to be fast, making them less
fast.
I think our main problem now is that we are not close enough to this world
where all of the relays are weighted appropriately.
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