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Re: Tor client performance (was Re: URGENT: patch needed ASAP for authority bug)

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Subject: Re: Tor client performance (was Re: URGENT: patch needed ASAP for authority bug)
From: Andrew Lewman <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:50:45 -0400
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On 04/20/2010 09:56 AM, Olaf Selke wrote:
> yep! Sorry to bother you again with this number-of-connection issue. Tor
> on my network status machine is a non exit relay with a rather
> restrictive bandwidth policy of "BandwidthRate 50 KB" and
> "BandwidthBurst 100 KB". Even this tiny middleman relay holds 10000+ tcp
> connections. Probably this number of connections will kill most routers
> used in residential environment.

A random thought, a number of people pick paths through tor network
based on fastest relays by bandwidth served.  They think this makes
their tor faster.  As blutmagie was #1 for so long, perhaps you're
seeing the traffic from many clients specifically picking blutmagie.

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Follow-Ups:
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- Tor client performance (was Re: URGENT: patch needed ASAP for authority bug)
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