control time spent with a circuit

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Subject: control time spent with a circuit
From: Richard Baron Penman <richardbp@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:55:54 +1000
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hello,

I am after advice how to control/influence the time spent using a circuit.

A few ideas from browsing the manual:

- add port 80 to LongLivedPorts

- decrease CircuitBuildTimeout so have more robust longer lived circuits (or shorter?)

- set high CircuitStreamTimeout to change circuits less often (unfortunately not supported in my v0.2.1.26)

- increase NewCircuitPeriod so consider new circuits less often

Is my understanding correct? And are there better approaches?

thanks,

Richard