[tor-bugs] #2183 [Tor Relay]: router_rebuild_descriptor(): Bug: Couldn't generate extra-info descriptor

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#2183: router_rebuild_descriptor(): Bug: Couldn't generate extra-info descriptor
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  Reporter:  Falo       |       Owner:  karsten            
      Type:  defect     |      Status:  closed             
  Priority:  normal     |   Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.2.x-final 
 Component:  Tor Relay  |     Version:  Tor: 0.2.2.17-alpha
Resolution:  fixed      |    Keywords:                     
    Parent:             |  
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Comment(by mikeperry):

 So what is the effect of removing things from the end of the smartlist?
 What types of elements can we expect to see removed if the size is over
 50KB?

 I also really needed to see the exit port byte totals. This is especially
 important to determining if we should weight certain exits differently
 than others based on exit policy. The only way we can tell how we should
 do this weighting is if we see these stats from very fast exits with the
 default exit policy, which are precisely the exits that are going to have
 very large extra info descriptors.

 Why can't we just be smarter about grouping more of the long tail of ports
 with low bytes counts into other? This should reduce the size of the exit-
 kibibyes-* lines.

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