[tor-bugs] #7799 [Tor]: Tor seems to build+timeout circuits for hours when offline/idle

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#7799: Tor seems to build+timeout circuits for hours when offline/idle
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 Reporter:  mr-4    |          Owner:                    
     Type:  defect  |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  normal  |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component:  Tor     |        Version:  Tor: 0.2.4.7-alpha
 Keywords:          |         Parent:                    
   Points:          |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by mr-4):

 Replying to [comment:13 mikeperry]:
 > I never disbelieved this was happening, I only stated that the symptoms
 were unclear.
 Oh, yeah?

 Quoting from your topmost comment above:
 > "The bug submitter seems to be hitting the rageahol a little too hard
 this holiday season. A little investigation reveals a few things are
 incorrect in the bug report's description".
 Care to explain that comment and what exactly in my bug submission is
 "incorrect"?

 > What I still don't understand is why an idle-but-still-connected client
 would actually be attempting to build tens of thousands of circuits and
 fail at all of them for seemingly no reason.
 You "don't understand"? Hang on a minute...

 ...this is what you started off with:
 > "First: The reported logline is info level, not notice. It's possible
 that the notice line was *also* triggered, but that's not immediately
 clear based on the situation description.
 >
 > Second: I strongly suspect that Tor wasn't idle, but was actually
 disconnected from the network."
 That doesn't read as something you "misunderstood" to me - you were pretty
 damn certain, though as was later established, pretty wrong on both
 counts, so I don't know who is the one "hitting the rageahol a little too
 hard this holiday season"...

 > That makes me think the code I added and the log message here only made
 another bug visible, and is not the actual cause of the issue...
 A word of advice - next time, take a step back, count to 10 and then post
 before you go off with all your guns blazing.

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