Re: Load Balancing

2007-09-23 Thread Fabian Keil
Juliusz Chroboczek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe this results in a perceptible performance improvement for general browsing. I think so too, but some people disagree. Since I don't want to get into this discussion again, I refer you to the following friendly flamewar. Additionally

Re: Load Balancing

2007-09-22 Thread Fabian Keil
Michael_google gmail_Gersten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/21/07, Alexander W. Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/21/07, Nick Mathewson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Short answer: Tor tries to group many streams on a single circuit. If we didn't, that would be way too much PK. Means,

Re: Load Balancing

2007-09-22 Thread Robert Hogan
On Friday 21 September 2007 19:34:09 Alexander W. Janssen wrote: On 9/21/07, Arrakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, quick question. If I have Tor process running, and request a url that has 10 images to load from the same domain, do all the requests go through the same circuit, or

Re: Load Balancing

2007-09-22 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:06:39 -0700 Michael_google gmail_Gersten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/21/07, Alexander W. Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/21/07, Nick Mathewson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Short answer: Tor tries to group many streams on a single circuit. If we didn't, that

Re: Load Balancing

2007-09-22 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
- privoxy will use new streams on the same circuit for each of the images - polipo will generally pipeline everything over the same stream Not quite. Polipo will try to use up to n simultaneous connections to a given server, where n is - 2 for a server that can do pipelining; - 4 for a

Re: Load Balancing

2007-09-22 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 03:06:39PM -0700, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: If you have a web page with 30 sub-fetches (images, style sheets, script files, etc), then they will all fetch over a single circuit. It does NOT make sense from a performance point of view. Since everything will

Re: Load Balancing

2007-09-22 Thread Anthony DiPierro
On 9/22/07, Roger Dingledine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once upon a time, the value of 10 minutes was actually more like 1 minute. You see, the shorter it is, the fewer actions from the user are linkable with each other based on being in the same circuit. But Tor server operaters complained they

Re: Load Balancing

2007-09-22 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 03:51:07PM -0400, Anthony DiPierro wrote: If the user started churning through circuits at five times the current rate, we may end up forced to move the 10 minute value back even farther to compensate, resulting in even more user connections becoming linkable. Why

Re: Load Balancing

2007-09-21 Thread Arrakis
Alex, That is exactly the distinction I am looking for. Does Tor care about the destination of the TCP request, when deciding to make a new circuit, and thus will use one because it is already dirtied by that domain? Steve Alexander W. Janssen wrote: However, considering your question... It

Re: Load Balancing

2007-09-21 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 9/21/07, Arrakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Tor care about the destination of the TCP request, when deciding to make a new circuit, and thus will use one because it is already dirtied by that domain? s/domain/IP-address ? However, that's all up to the implementation of the internal

Re: Load Balancing

2007-09-21 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
On 9/21/07, Alexander W. Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/21/07, Nick Mathewson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Short answer: Tor tries to group many streams on a single circuit. If we didn't, that would be way too much PK. Means, if the browser opens up 6 instances to grab stuff from a