[tor-bugs] #4499 [Analysis]: Investigate scaling points to handle more bridges

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#4499: Investigate scaling points to handle more bridges
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 Reporter:  runa      |          Owner:  karsten                  
     Type:  task      |         Status:  assigned                 
 Priority:  normal    |      Milestone:  Sponsor E: March 15, 2012
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Comment(by arma):

 If we end up with way too many bridges, here are a few things we'll want
 to look at updating:

 - Tonga still does a reachability test on each bridge every 21 minutes or
 so. Eventually the number of tls handshakes it's doing will overwhelm its
 cpu.

 - The tarballs we make every half hour have substantial overlap. If we
 have tens of thousands of descriptors, we would want to get smarter at
 sending diffs over to bridgedb.

 - Somebody should check whether bridgedb's interaction with users freezes
 while it's reading a new set of data.

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