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On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 08:08:04PM +0100, mas at pyradic.dyndns.org wrote:
 
> However, pyradic statistics do not appear to have stabilized since
> then.  Take a look at
> http://stats.bananasplit.info/pyradic.mixmaster.pyradic.dyndns.org.txt
> for example: Most pingers show pyradic at around 95% reliability,
> with "low" (90 or even 80%) figures for the last few days!
 
> Any idea why this could be so?

It's because lots of pingers base % reliability over a period of days.
The current day is actually weighted less than the previous few days.
For example, if you drop a single ping today, your stats might say 95%.
In 24 hours time, without dropping another ping, they could be 90%.

The reason for this is latency.  Take a look at frell for example which
has high latency.  It will always have lots of pings outstanding because
of this but is in fact very reliable.  To reflect this situation, uptime
is weighted to a period 2-4 days previously.

> My next thought was that the problem might be due a lower number of  
> messages passing through pyradic, which might account for increased  
> latency and thus an apparent reduction in reliability.  However: a)  
> remailer-stats do not show a significant decrease in number of  
> messages; b) increasing dummy generation did not help; and c) pingers  
> do not actually show a big increase in latenciy

Even if you were processing less messages, your latency shouldn't change
much unless you cross a threshold where there aren't even enough
messages to trigger the pool.  This is very unlikely as pings alone
would certainly accomplish that.

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