Re: Exit relays w/ default policy: Please enable ExitPortStatistics

[Karsten Loesing <karsten.loesing@xxxxxxx>]

On 11/22/10 1:51 PM, Teun Nijssen wrote:
> on 2010-11-21 00:32 Karsten Loesing wrote the following:
>> On 11/21/10 12:05 AM, Mike Perry wrote:
>>> While trying to write some code to process the new ExitPortStatistics
>>> data included in the 0.2.2.x series, I've discovered that not one exit
>>> relay that has the default exit policy has enabled these statistics.
>>> Doing so requires the following two lines to be added to your torrc:
>>>
>>> ExitPortStatistics 1
>>> ExtraInfoStatistics 1
>>>
>>> You should be able to kill -HUP your tor to have it enable the stats
>>> without restart.
>>>
>>> We especially need high speed relays to do this to help investigate
>>> load balancing options.
>>
>> Please wait with enabling ExitPortStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics
>> until 0.2.2.19 is out. We found a bug that prevents very fast relays
>> reporting these statistics from generating and uploading a descriptor.
>> The result was that two of the blutmagies were offline for a few days.
>> The bugfix will be contained in 0.2.2.19.
> 
> yep; it killed TORy too; didn't found time yet to play with it.

Eeeek! The quickest fix is to set ExitPortStatistics to 0 and send Tor a
HUP signal or restart it. As I said, the bugfix will be contained in
0.2.2.19.

Best,
--Karsten