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authorMike Perry <mikeperry-git@fscked.org>2013-01-30 18:40:46 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2013-02-01 17:01:12 -0500
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Refactor the scaling parameter fetching into a single function.
Also, deprecate the torrc options for the scaling values. It's unlikely anyone but developers will ever tweak them, even if we provided a single ratio value.
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@@ -1238,11 +1238,7 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if
**PathBiasDropGuards** __NUM__ +
-**PathBiasScaleThreshold** __NUM__ +
-
-**PathBiasMultFactor** __NUM__ +
-
-**PathBiasScaleFactor** __NUM__::
+**PathBiasScaleThreshold** __NUM__::
These options override the default behavior of Tor's (**currently
experimental**) path bias detection algorithm. To try to find broken or
misbehaving guard nodes, Tor looks for nodes where more than a certain
@@ -1256,14 +1252,13 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if
is set to 1, we disable use of that guard. +
+
When we have seen more than PathBiasScaleThreshold
- circuits through a guard, we scale our observations by
- PathBiasMultFactor/PathBiasScaleFactor, so that new observations don't get
- swamped by old ones. +
+ circuits through a guard, we scale our observations by 0.5 (governed by
+ the consensus) so that new observations don't get swamped by old ones. +
+
By default, or if a negative value is provided for one of these options,
Tor uses reasonable defaults from the networkstatus consensus document.
If no defaults are available there, these options default to 150, .70,
- .50, .30, 0, 300, 1, and 2 respectively.
+ .50, .30, 0, and 300 respectively.
**PathBiasUseThreshold** __NUM__ +