On 9 May 2017, at 11:20, Roger Dingledine arma@mit.edu wrote:
On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 06:00:18PM +0000, nickm@torproject.org wrote:
commit d5a151a06788c28ac1c50398c6e571d484774f47 Author: Mike Perry mikeperry-git@torproject.org Date: Tue Feb 21 21:28:00 2017 -0500
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- Increase the intial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to help
ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning a timeoutbefore their orconn would expire. The initial testing rate was set backin the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser updater, when we had to bemuch more careful about new clients making lots of circuits. With thischange, a circuit build time is learned in about 15-20 minutes, insteadof ~100-120 minutes.Fyi, the current Tor network has "cbttestfreq=60" set in its consensus params.
Is this something we should change?
Yes, otherwise the change to the default will have no effect for clients that successfully download a consensus.
I suggest we change it to 10 now, as it will immediately improve the timeout behaviour for mobile clients.
I think there is even a sponsor for this, ahf and nickm can tell you which.
T -- Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)
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