Loading doc/tor-design.tex +3 −2 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -1571,10 +1571,11 @@ performance. % Right now the first $500 \times 500\mbox{B}=250\mbox{KB}$ %sendme} acknowledgments arrive. To quantify these effects, we did some informal tests using a network of 4 nodes on the same machine (a heavily loaded 1GHz Athlon). We downloaded a 60 megabyte file from {\tt debian.org} every 10 minutes for 21.3 hours (128 sample megabyte file from {\tt debian.org} every 30 minutes for 54 hours (108 sample points). It arrived in about 300 seconds on average, compared to 210s for a direct download. We ran a similar test on the production Tor network, fetching the front page of {\tt cnn.com} (55 kilobytes): while a direct fetching the front page of {\tt cnn.com} (55 kilobytes) every 10 minutes for 21.3 hours (128 sample points): while a direct download consistently took about 0.3s, the performance through Tor was highly variable. Some downloads were as fast as 0.3s, with a median at 2.6s, and 90\% finishing within 6.0s. It seems that as the network expands, the chance Loading Loading
doc/tor-design.tex +3 −2 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -1571,10 +1571,11 @@ performance. % Right now the first $500 \times 500\mbox{B}=250\mbox{KB}$ %sendme} acknowledgments arrive. To quantify these effects, we did some informal tests using a network of 4 nodes on the same machine (a heavily loaded 1GHz Athlon). We downloaded a 60 megabyte file from {\tt debian.org} every 10 minutes for 21.3 hours (128 sample megabyte file from {\tt debian.org} every 30 minutes for 54 hours (108 sample points). It arrived in about 300 seconds on average, compared to 210s for a direct download. We ran a similar test on the production Tor network, fetching the front page of {\tt cnn.com} (55 kilobytes): while a direct fetching the front page of {\tt cnn.com} (55 kilobytes) every 10 minutes for 21.3 hours (128 sample points): while a direct download consistently took about 0.3s, the performance through Tor was highly variable. Some downloads were as fast as 0.3s, with a median at 2.6s, and 90\% finishing within 6.0s. It seems that as the network expands, the chance Loading
