On the performance scalability of Tor

2007-07-18 Thread Steven Murdoch
A frequently stated problem with Tor is the poor performance and improving this is the goal of several sub-projects. One of these is to simply encourage the deployment of more Tor servers. This will increase the capacity of the network, but the consequent improvement to users is more difficult to

Re: On the performance scalability of Tor

2007-07-18 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 07:52:14PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote: Thus spake Mike Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): RELAY_EXTEND is the way this is done. I believe clients can and do send multiple RELAY_EXTENDs in a row, so it's not like its a Sorry, I'm a moron. I meant to say RELAY_BEGIN. Also,

Re: On the performance scalability of Tor

2007-07-18 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Roger Dingledine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 07:52:14PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote: Thus spake Mike Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): RELAY_EXTEND is the way this is done. I believe clients can and do send multiple RELAY_EXTENDs in a row, so it's not like its a

Re: On the performance scalability of Tor

2007-07-18 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
They can be issued concurrently. Tor doesn't care. Indeed; I will see vidalia show a lot of connectings all at once, followed by all switching to open at once (TCP streams inside a tor circuit). The overhead to open a new TCP HTTP connection through a tor circuit seems to be very long. I know