Not correlated (i'm too small in that pool), but i have workd on software to maintain a HS pool. During dev, and at one point, i was emitting thousands of registration a day.
2016-02-18 16:51 GMT+01:00 Roger Dingledine <a...@mit.edu>: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Scfith Rise up wrote: > > Here is the exact link: > https://metrics.torproject.org/hidserv-dir-onions-seen.html > > > > it jumped from 40000 to 60000 in the past day or two. > > > > Since the metrics are based on the number of relays acting as hidden > >services with the assumption that at least 1% are reporting in, the > >numbers are correlated directly with the number of relays running as well. > > Yep. Also, because each reporting relay adds noise, sometimes, due to > the math involved, more than half of the relays end up inflating their > number, so we end up with a higher number on that graph than is actually > true in reality. > > Still, that is a large jump. > > Let's wait a few days and see if it settles down. > > If it doesn't, I'll guess that it's a real effect. But even then, > we don't know why this (daily!) number is so much larger than the > (total!) number of onion addresses that e.g. Ahmia knows about. Maybe > it's Onionshare users, who generate one onion address per document they > transfer? Maybe it's Ricochet users? Maybe it's measurement error? We need > to see more improvements in the field of privacy-preserving statistics > and measurements before we'll feel comfortable trying to get answers to > this question. > > --Roger > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
