To the Tor developers (Or anyone qualified to answer):
I really don't know how reasonable this request is, but I thought I'd ask: Would it be possible to make the Write/Read limiting not apply to connections to the Tor control port? I have noticed that since Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha, when write limiting was enabled, responses from the Tor control port seem to be throttled back (Which makes sense, technically, because it is the server "writing"). The problem is that on a busy server which runs right at its set BandwidthRate pretty much all the time, big requests of the control port that used to take 30 seconds might now take 15-20 minutes, or more, depending on circumstances. By "big requests", I mean a request like "GETINFO desc/all-recent" or "GETINFO ns/all". The reason this matters to me personally is that the Tor Network Status application / website I wrote makes big requests of the local Tor server control port like this frequently. I might be wrong, but I would imagine it's entirely possible other Tor status or control applications may also do this. Anyways, please let me know your thoughts. I would love to be in a situation to submit a patch for this myself, but my C skills are quite old and tarnished (That doesn't mean that I won't attempt it at some point. I just figured that it may be a quick fix for someone familiar with the code base, and therefore worth asking about first). As always, thanks for all the great work on Tor. Best regards, Joe Kowalski
