This ticket is somewhat vague due to my lack of
familiarity with the inner workings of TorFlow
and lack of access to a the system in question
It consists of an observed artifact that
may be attributable to one of the more
specific issues. Please feel free to close
it out and/or note where it might belong.
For the last two weeks BWauths have been
generating measurements with apparently
improved rationality. Not sure what
change caused that but it's a very welcome
development.
On July 22 'longclaw' stopped updating
bandwidth measurements for four days,
but was restored about a day ago and
is now working.
'longclaw' has, in the last few hours,
produced an large outlier observation
for a Verizon FiOS relay relative to
a group of similar relays. Understanding
the cause may help further improve the
state of TorFlow.
The following relays all operate on
fast symmetrical FiOS connections in the
North Eastern US. Since the improved
behavior appeared, these relays generally
are measured with increasing bandwidth
in the order
longclawgabelmoomaatuskamoria1First a close-match and typical observationas of 17:00 GMT 2015-07-27:Binnaclelongclaw Bandwidth=8055 Measured=5350gabelmoo Bandwidth=8055 Measured=8830maatuska Bandwidth=8055 Measured=9370moria1 Bandwidth=8055 Measured=21500Now for the outlier, a relay verysimilar to the above though itappears to have 30% more bandwidthavailable to the relay:EmbraceTheChaoslongclaw Bandwidth=6986 Measured=33700gabelmoo Bandwidth=6986 Measured=9090maatuska Bandwidth=6986 Measured=9710moria1 Bandwidth=6986 Measured=48200The above measure appeared abruptly in2015-07-27-09-00-00-vote-23D . . .and in the prior vote was the morerational, consistent and typicalBandwidth=6986 Measured=4710=====Additional similar relays:ZzZzZzlongclaw Bandwidth=6270 Measured=2530gabelmoo Bandwidth=6270 Measured=5530maatuska Bandwidth=6270 Measured=6420moria1 Bandwidth=6270 Measured=16600AGoodFellowlongclaw Bandwidth=4082 Measured=2620gabelmoo Bandwidth=4082 Measured=4950maatuska Bandwidth=4082 Measured=8730moria1 Bandwidth=4082 Measured=9740UrbanRelayUTlongclaw Bandwidth=3145 Measured=2540gabelmoo Bandwidth=3145 Measured=2880maatuska Bandwidth=3145 Measured=6740moria1 Bandwidth=3145 Measured=5380JumpPointlongclaw Bandwidth=2777 Measured=2470gabelmoo Bandwidth=2777 Measured=2800maatuska Bandwidth=2777 Measured=4440moria1 Bandwidth=2777 Measured=534012xBTM1longclaw Bandwidth=2037 Measured=1020gabelmoo Bandwidth=2037 Measured=2220maatuska Bandwidth=2037 Measured=1860moria1 Bandwidth=2037 Measured=3030
The though behind this ticket is it
may be worth analyzing specific examples
of apparently unsensible measurments
made by TorFlow. Due to the homogenous
and generally high-quality nature of
the Verizon FiOS network this is a
reasonable data point.