[tor-bugs] #28877 [Core Tor/Tor]: 'GETINFO desc/fingerprints' command to get known relays

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#28877: 'GETINFO desc/fingerprints' command to get known relays
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 Reporter:  wagon         |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement   |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  Medium        |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal        |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                |         Points:  2
 Reviewer:                |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by wagon):

 Replying to [comment:9 atagar]:
 > I could be wrong on that detail. I'd be a little surprised if tor kept
 the full server descriptors in memory since the process does not need the
 full documents and doing so would bloat tor's memory profile
 teor
 [[http://ea5faa5po25cf7fb.onion/projects/tor/ticket/28676#comment:19|says]]
 some of these commands read it from the disk.

 > I need the ability to iterate over all descriptors without getting such
 a large response.
 Here we may confuse two different things. There are some big outputs which
 are not lists of fingerprint-indexed small outputs. For example, an output
 of the command `GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus` has some header
 and footer which are general for the whole list. Should such headers and
 footers be printed together with fingerprint lists for these types of
 commands?

 > Please file a separate ticket about that so we can keep this ticket
 narrowly focused.
 #28921 is created.

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