[tor-bugs] #584 [Tor Client]: Clients process descriptor fetches as they arrive?

[Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki]

#584: Clients process descriptor fetches as they arrive?
------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
 Reporter:  arma              |         Type:  enhancement
   Status:  new               |     Priority:  minor      
Milestone:  Tor: unspecified  |    Component:  Tor Client 
  Version:  0.2.0.9-alpha     |   Resolution:  None       
 Keywords:                    |       Parent:             
------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
Changes (by nickm):

  * milestone:  post 0.2.1.x => Tor: unspecified


Old description:

> While we're fetching descriptors in a directory request, wouldn't it
> be nice if we could parse and make use of the ones that are sitting
> on the buffer?
>
> This would let us bootstrap quicker, and be especially relevant once
> we use the fallback consensus and start using slow dir caches to
> bootstrap.
>
> It will also avoid the 250K blobs sitting in ram.
>
> This might be destabilizing enough that it should wait til 0.2.1.x. Not
> sure.
>
> [Automatically added by flyspray2trac: Operating System: All]

New description:

 While we're fetching descriptors in a directory request, wouldn't it
 be nice if we could parse and make use of the ones that are sitting
 on the buffer?

 This would let us bootstrap quicker, and be especially relevant once
 we use the fallback consensus and start using slow dir caches to
 bootstrap.

 It will also avoid the 250K blobs sitting in ram.

 This might be destabilizing enough that it should wait til 0.2.1.x. Not
 sure.

 [Automatically added by flyspray2trac: Operating System: All]

--

Comment:

 For our own sanity, this would want to be a bufferevents-only feature that
 happens when we switch from a  zlib-on-an-evbuffer to filtering
 bufferevents.   Marking with the unspecified milestone, since it's a nice-
 to-have but not a must-have.

-- 
Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/584#comment:2>
Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/>
The Tor Project: anonymity online