Re: [tor-dev] Implications of switching to a single guard node: some conclusions

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 01:41:43PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote:

Nicholas Hopper:

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I modified Aaron Johnson's TorPS simulator to simulate 50K clients

** The reason I ask is because I suspect there is actually an interplay between the current circuit build timeout code and the pool of 3 guards. The CBT cutoff will tend to cause you to avoid whichever of your guards may be temporarily overloaded at a given time.

Does Aaron's TorPS implement the circuit-build-timeout behavior?

I wouldn't be surprised if it skipped over that, since (for example) where would you get the realistic data about network latencies and relay delays to be able to simulate it?

--Roger