[tor-bugs] #24716 [Core Tor/DirAuth]: Try cranking up cbttestfreq consensus param, to see if it helps the current overload

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#24716: Try cranking up cbttestfreq consensus param, to see if it helps the current
overload
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 Reporter:  arma              |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  task              |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium            |      Milestone:
Component:  Core Tor/DirAuth  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal            |     Resolution:
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Comment (by teor):

 Overall, these relays have been much more stable on Atlas and in OVH's
 monitoring since we made this change. I haven't made any other config
 changes over that time.

 So I would call this a success - we should think about the defaults for
 these values.

 We might also want to consider asking DirAuths to raising the circuits
 available timeout for clients, which is new in 0.3.1. I recommend
 `nf_conntimeout_clients 18000`. See #24768 for details.

 I also recommend we reconsider the idle and network timeout changes in
 that commit, neither of which can be changed using consensus parameters.
 See #24769.

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