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[tor-bugs] #27353 [Core Tor/Tor]: intern project idea: a chutney or shadow framework for testing bootstrap speed/success
#27353: intern project idea: a chutney or shadow framework for testing bootstrap
speed/success
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Reporter: arma | Owner: (none)
Type: project | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: Core Tor/Tor | Version:
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
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Sometimes when I start my tor client and it's been a while, it takes 2 or
3 minutes to bootstrap. It seems to be getting stuck on the "asking for a
consensus" phase, maybe because the guards listed in my state file are
gone, or maybe because only one of them is gone but my Tor doesn't handle
it well. I'm not sure.
It would be neat for somebody to set up a chutney or shadow configuration
that sets up various bootstrapping scenarios and then observes time-to-
bootstrap for each. For examples, setting up scenarios where our
configured guards are all down, or all down but one, or we're firewalled
such that our tcp attempts don't get an immediate failure, or our guards
are up but they don't have their dir info yet or they have dir info but
it's old, or some of our guards are overloaded so they serve dir info very
slowly.
We could use this approach to find regressions, and also to discover
corner cases where we have more bootstrapping delays than we ought to.
I call it an intern project idea because it's bite-sized and reasonably
self-contained.
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