On 9/6/12, grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote: > Overall, it seems Tor acts unreliably when loaded down with hidden > service requests. Whereas with TCP over a loaded internet or CPU, > you normally get connections and data, just more slowly. This > behavior with Tor could very easily impact chatty mesh services > that people might want to deploy on onions. Ideas?
Patient: ‘Doctor, it hurts when I do this.’ Doctor: ‘Don't do that then.’ Tor's hidden service protocol requires that the client build many auxiliary circuits in order to establish each rendezvous circuit (and a client must open a separate rendezvous circuit with each hidden service that it connects to). A client connection attempt which does not succeed quickly also causes the service to build many wasted circuits. Any system in which each user operates a Tor hidden service and attempts to connect to many other users *will* put excessive load on the network in several ways, in addition to wasting users' CPU time and making the Tor instances involved generally flake out. Robert Ransom _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
