[tor-bugs] #2149 [Tor]: 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:  needs_revision    
 Priority:  major                           |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component:  Tor                             |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  performance scaling tor-client  |         Parent:                    
   Points:                                  |   Actualpoints:                    
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Changes (by nickm):

  * status:  needs_review => needs_revision


Comment:

 I've started a feature2149 branch in my public repo based on that branch,
 and started to fix some issues there .  Some more mostly cosmetic things
 I'd like to fix before merging, based on a conversation with andrea:

  * exporting get_connections() to dirserv.c is a bit silly
  * We should make sure that new DNS requests count as client activity
  * We need to call or_mark_state_dirty when clearing Dormant and
 DormantStage as well
  * The interval needed to become dormant should be configurable, for
 testing if nothing else.
  * We should make sure that hidden services can never go dormant, and that
 adding a hidden service makes a node non-dormant.
  * We should be consistent about invoking
 directory_too_idle_to_fetch_consensuses() versus testing Dormant directly.
  * I also wonder if putting this "CONN_PAUSED" business at the
 81%-bootstrapped level is right.  It seems that after that, it's likely to
 go and immediately fetch the consensus, so maybe it should be less
 bootstrapped than if we'd fetched no consensus

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