[tor-relays] clarification on what Utah State University exit relays store ("360 gigs of log files")

[Roger Dingledine]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 07:39:45PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote:
> Otherwise, from these defaults, it sounds like Tor's one hour timeout on
> client TLS connections seems reasonable, and perhaps not worth raising,
> since even if we were using padding and keep-alives, the flow data would
> still record a fresh byte count record + timestamp every 30 minutes?

Also check out
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6799#comment:6
which got merged into Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/ChangeLog?id=tor-0.2.5.5-alpha#n9
where we randomize the time before we close an idle TLS conn.

--Roger