On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 01:28:02PM -0700, Kyle Williams wrote:
This is the nature of a over saturated network.
Actually, I don't think the Tor network is as oversatured as we think.
I think it's just massively unbalanced.
See sections 2 and 4 of
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/why-tor-is-slow
Hidden services seem spotty to me too, but their's not much I can do about
it except try again and be patient.
I think there's a real bug here. I've been playing with it on and off. I
think that when Tor has a rendezvous circuit that it thinks it should
like, and suddenly changes its mind, then it discards that circuit and
starts working on a new one (which is good), but at the same time it
closes the socks stream (which is bad).
Fixing that bug, if it turns out to actually be a bug, would mean that
hidden services are dirt slow when making the initial connection (until
we make Tor itself faster at least), but they're not as flaky as they
currently appear.
--Roger