[tor-bugs] #2093 [Vidalia]: Handle debug-level Tor log severity efficiently

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#2093: Handle debug-level Tor log severity efficiently
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 Reporter:  arma     |       Owner:     
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  major    |   Milestone:     
Component:  Vidalia  |     Version:     
 Keywords:           |      Parent:     
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 Configure your Vidalia to listen to debug-level Tor logs, leave the
 message window open, and then do something active with your Tor. Vidalia
 will go nuts trying to keep up with displaying all the lines, resizing
 them, and whatever else it's trying to do. It's too inefficient handling
 each new line, and trying to do thousands of them at once just overwhelms
 it.

 Why? What can we do to fix or mitigate? If we can't fix, maybe we should
 make it more discouraged to click the 'debug' button?

 While I'm at it, why does Vidalia set up its own log files from the
 message window, when it could configure Tor so Tor does the logging?

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