On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:30:06 -0500 (CDT) I wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:47:36 +0200 Hans Schnehl <torvallenator@xxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>>On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:03:58AM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 06:59:18AM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote:
>>>
>>> I expect this will be a miraculous solution for everybody involved. Please
>>> let me know either way. ;)
>>>
>>
>>Hi, indeed miraculous.
>>
>>Working till now, after about one hour uptime.
>>
>>Particularily like watching circuits' getting 'wasted'. Yes, please !
>>
>>Starting here:
>>@vallenator# grep empty /usr/local/etc/tor/debug.log | head -1
>>Apr 22 06:04:05.492 [info] circuit_expire_old_circuits_serverside():
>>Closing circ_id 12394 (empty 60 secs ago) (yes)
>>
>>to here:
>>@vallenator# grep empty /usr/local/etc/tor/debug.log | tail -1
>>Apr 22 06:34:05.565 [info] circuit_expire_old_circuits_serverside():
>>Closing circ_id 59251 (empty 69 secs ago) (yes)
>>
>>so almost exactly 30 min have passed, and:
>>
>>@vallenator# grep empty /usr/local/etc/tor/debug.log | wc -l
>> 34361
>> ^^^^^
>>wow.
>>
>>Connections/states have a growing tendency at a 'normal' rate, right now
>>around 4000. This is just fine.
>>
>>If nothing weird happens, you may call this a node again.
>>
>>Thanks for the brilliant patch.
>>
> Well, Roger's patch may provide some relief until the next tor release
>comes out, but lest anyone get too excited, it would be well to keep in mind
>that it is a patch to treat symptoms. It is not at all clear yet, AFAIK,
>what the cause of the recent troubles has been. Wiping out connections that
>might otherwise remain available for use, thereby making it necessary for
>clients to make new SSL connections sooner than they might otherwise have
>needed does have a cost. At some point, I hope that cause will be found and
>dealt with. Having a way to close idle OR connections based upon a timeout
>specified by the authorities in the consensus, but overridable by a torrc
>line by individual relay operators, looks to me like a good thing to have
>henceforward. That way attentive relay operators can decrease or increase
>the timeout period according to their needs, but the authorities would still
>have a possibility of adjusting the timeout period on NORDO relays on all
>the other relays.
The previous sentence got edited wrong. It should have read, "...
have a possibility of adjusting the timeout period on all the other relays."
> Thanks for making the patch available, Roger. Circuit build times have
>climbed here from ~26 s a few days ago to 97 s at the moment. It will be
>good to see those times fall again.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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