[tor-bugs] #2149 [Tor Client]: new 'extra dormant' mode for people who never use their tor

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#2149: new 'extra dormant' mode for people who never use their tor
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 Reporter:  arma         |       Owner:     
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:     
Component:  Tor Client   |     Version:     
 Keywords:               |      Parent:     
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 If you stop using your Tor as a client (and it doesn't have dirport or
 orport open), after an hour you'll stop fetching descriptors, but you'll
 continue to fetch consensuses.

 Periodically we hear plans like
 http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/DesignAndToDos that will involve
 installing Tor on things by default.

 We should teach Tor that if a lot of time passes (e.g. 24 hours), it
 should stop fetching consensuses also. It should also remember in its
 state file that it's doing so, so the dormancy survives across reboots.

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