commit b38e7ef011ffca4967e53bc461cc8af98ff78917 Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> Date: Thu Jun 29 10:39:44 2017 -0400 control-spec: Clarify that the 16MB buffer limit went away in 2007 Closes ticket 22742. --- control-spec.txt | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/control-spec.txt b/control-spec.txt index aead150..275221c 100644 --- a/control-spec.txt +++ b/control-spec.txt @@ -3102,8 +3102,13 @@ 5.2. Don't let the buffer get too big. - If you ask for lots of events, and 16MB of them queue up on the buffer, - the Tor process will close the socket. + With old versions of Tor (before 0.2.0.16-alpha), if you ask for + lots of events, and 16MB of them queue up on the buffer, the Tor + process will close the socket. + + Newer Tor versions do not have this 16 MB buffer limit. However, + if you leave huge numbers of events unread, Tor may still run out + of memory, so you should still be careful about buffer size. 5.3. Backward compatibility with v0 control protocol.