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Re: URGENT: patch needed ASAP for authority bug
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- Subject: Re: URGENT: patch needed ASAP for authority bug
- From: CyberRax <cyberrax@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:40:54 -0700 (PDT)
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--- On Fri, 16/4/10, Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
> If relay operators discover that they can't limit consumption by tor of
> one or more resources anymore, they may choose, or even be forced to
> choose, to stop running them at all.
> [...]
Got to agree on this one. I myself am a representative of "home operator" class, ie those who don't have a dedicated high capacity server set up for their relay but rather run it on a limited home line behind a router. The past few days I've been messing around with the problem that even the 64kB main/80kB burst values in my TORRC are enough to get 3500+ connections which simply glog up the router. Now, I'm willing to mess around with the problem (currently have fixed it with server downtime, hogging the uplink with various other things and limiting available file descriptors to 2048, the latter causing occasional complaints from Tor that it's not possible to write to the state file), but how many newcomers (who one day might set up another blutmagie) are up to that? They might be excited about the project, but as soon as they discover that the result of running a relay is the crash of their router, and there isn't really anything they can do about it
except getting a second connection, they'll simply stop being a relay. One of the main reasons Tor has been so successful is the fact that even home users can run a relay...
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