[tor-bugs] #4386 [Tor Relay]: Requesting better "too slow" warning message

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#4386: Requesting better "too slow" warning message
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 Reporter:  tmpname0901  |          Owner:     
     Type:  defect       |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:     
Component:  Tor Relay    |        Version:     
 Keywords:               |         Parent:     
   Points:               |   Actualpoints:     
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 Over an 18-hour period Tor v0.2.2.34 logged 5 instances of "Your computer
 is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests! Please consider
 using the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option or choosing a more
 restricted exit policy." with several hundred more messages suppressed.

 Since I've never seen these message before and because I've changed
 nothing in the 10 days since I updated to v0.2.2.34, I feel pretty
 confident I can blow off these warnings.

 The message, though, give no indication of how far I am from being able to
 handle the number of pending requests.  How would I know what value to
 configure MaxAdvertisedBandwidth with?  How much more restrictive does the
 exit policy need to be?  The problem is that I don't know if it was a
 single connection that couldn't be accomplished or 10,000 connections.  If
 the former it makes sense to tweak my config; if the latter I can safely
 dismiss the warnings as resulting from some sort of attempted attack.

 So... can we get more info in the "too slow" warning messages?

 Thanks.

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