[tor-bugs] #1307 [Tor Hidden Services]: Hosting many hidden services causes many errors and takes hours to start up

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#1307: Hosting many hidden services causes many errors and takes hours to start up
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    Reporter:  marked               |       Owner:  rransom                               
        Type:  defect               |      Status:  assigned                              
    Priority:  minor                |   Milestone:  Tor: unspecified                      
   Component:  Tor Hidden Services  |     Version:  0.2.1.24                              
  Resolution:  None                 |    Keywords:  hidden services, tor server, bootstrap
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Comment(by rransom):

 Replying to [comment:15 arma]:
 > What is Tor spending its cpu time doing in this case? A thousand public
 key ops shouldn't take this long.

 They would have been either RSA key-generation operations or RSA private-
 key operations.

 > (While I agree about the "don't do this" answer, learning exactly where
 we fail here could help us understand ways that we fail more subtly when
 hosting just a few hidden services.)

 See [https://gitweb.torproject.org/rransom/tor.git/shortlog/refs/heads
 /loud-hs-serv-pk-operations loud-hs-serv-pk-operations] (
 `git://git.torproject.org/rransom/tor.git loud-hs-serv-pk-operations` ).

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