[tor-bugs] #2149 [Tor Client]: new 'extra dormant' mode for people who never use their tor

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#2149: new 'extra dormant' mode for people who never use their tor
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 Reporter:  arma                 |          Owner:                    
     Type:  enhancement          |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  major                |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component:  Tor Client           |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  performance scaling  |         Parent:                    
   Points:                       |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by arma):

 Complication: if we just store a bit in the state file, and the Tor client
 instance never runs continuously for 24 hours (or whatever our cutoff is),
 then we'll never conclude that we're dormant -- every time we start we'll
 build some circuits, and count those as activity.

 We could fix it by putting a timestamp in the state file if we're not
 dormant but we're getting there, and then not counting the call to
 add_predicted_port that we do in predicted_ports_init on startup. That
 starts to get quite messy though.

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