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Re: [tor-bugs] #2149 [Tor]: new 'extra dormant' mode for people who never use their tor

#2149: new 'extra dormant' mode for people who never use their tor
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 Reporter:  arma                            |          Owner:                    
     Type:  enhancement                     |         Status:  needs_review      
 Priority:  major                           |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component:  Tor                             |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  performance scaling tor-client  |         Parent:                    
   Points:                                  |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by sysrqb):

 I forgot I hadn't committed/posted my new patch. I rewrote a lot of it but
 I kept a lot of the ideas.

 Overview:
 - After client is idle for 25 hours (1 hour for predicted ports to
 timeout, 24 hours from that point until dormant), stop fetching the new
 consensus.

 - During the 24 hour period, mark a "stage" as completed in the state file
 every 2 hours. If the client is restarted, it will pick-up from this stage
 after it passes the 1 hour predicted ports timeout period again.

 - Once dormant, the client remains dormant until the user requests a new
 connection

 - If the client is dormant and restarted, it pauses bootstrapping at "81%"
 (prior to creating a circuit). Once a user-initiated connection is
 received, a new consensus is fetched and the connection is handled
 normally.

 Note, this patch is better about not launching predicted ports if the
 client is dormant when it starts but makes predicted_port_init() global.

 Some of the above questions remain:
 - Should these functions really be in dirserv.*? They're functions of the
 client, not dir server.

 - Thoughts on using stages?

 In bug2149_redone_1_rebased on git://gitweb.evolvesoftware.cc/tor.git and
 attached.

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