Hi folks,
I'm on a quest to find the average circuit-creation rate of clients. I looked in path-spec.txt to find an answer, but it wasn't there. So I thought: lets take some measurements using ARM. This got me some strange results. I start ARM, do some browsing, and close my browser. During the browsing ARM reports 3 circuits with ID's: 398, 399 and 400. These circuits are still there 45 minutes after the browser was closed. If I then restart ARM it reports that there are only two circuits, with circuit ID's 405 and 406. It looks to me that ARM does not update the circuits page when old circuits are closed and replaced by new circuits. It's also possible that ARM keeps old circuits alive after they are not being used anymore by my Tor proxy.
Note: I use ARM version: 1.4.5.0, Tor version: 0.2.5.12
Regards, Rob. https://hoevenstein.nl