Yeah, Atlas wasn't designed to generate heavy traffic (it's not iperf ;)). Check page with most busy probes and you will see what you can expect.

https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/community/

Good think about 200Mbps link is that have a lot of headroom so we can be quite sure that we will see not spoiled results.

Regards,

Grzegorz

From: Evgeniy Sudyr <eject.in.ua@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday 2018-08-25 at 21:15
To: Eren Türkay <turkay.eren@gmail.com>
Cc: "ripe-atlas@ripe.net" <ripe-atlas@ripe.net>
Subject: Re: [atlas] Getting More Traffic for Probe

I can obly guess, but 20 Mbps for ICMP, DNS or HTTP probess will result in CPU saturation on that box.

For us it’s much important is stable Probe anybody can use anytime.

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Evgeniy Sudyr

On Sat 25. Aug 2018 at 21:01, Eren Türkay <turkay.eren@gmail.com> wrote:

You maybe right. I will wait a couple of weeks until my probe is tagged stable. It is fairly stable now, I fixed the boot problem and installed new OpenWRT router which works great for me. If somebodycan manually tag and shift traffic, it will handle without problem. Nevertheless, I will wait and report back.

Thanks for suggestions! I hope this probe will be better utilized. As I said, it can easily handle 20Mbit/s (even more).

On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 2:17 PM Antonios Chariton <daknob.mac@gmail.com> wrote:

In general I believe the RIPE Atlas network is heavily underutilized. I can confirm the low traffic too:

Now there are a few reasons that this could happen, but in general I believe the entire network is like this, and not just specific probes..

The reasons can be:

i) People just don’t have anything to measure, so they don’t send new measurements

ii) People think credits are actually super important, and want to keep them

iii) People believe current measurements are too expensive, so theoretically if everything costed 10x less, there would be 10x the measurements.

Now personally I think that it’s just (i), but I can’t actually really tell. Changing the available bandwidth from the RIPE Atlas page seems to not affect the bandwidth used. On the other hand, somehow the traffic is relatively constant at 7-8 Kb/s, and then moved up to like 8-9 Kb/s.. I do not think RIPE Atlas has 100% evenly distributed measurements, so there’s possibly some mechanism to distribute the load uniformly?

On 25 Aug 2018, at 15:02, Eren Türkay <turkay.eren@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I am running a probe [0] at my home and I have 240Mbit connection from my provider. When I look at the graphs, this probe is basically sitting idle doing nothing! I can spare 20Mbit/s easily for measurements to keep the usage. However, I do not know how to achieve that.

Is it possible to attract more traffic to my probe? I'm sure there is some algorithm involved to distribute the work so if you can please get me some more work, I'd be pleased [obviously more credits to spare :)]

[0] https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/31252/

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