[tor-relays] Hidden service error in log

[George Kadianakis]

Gary <jaffacakemonster53 at gmail.com> writes:

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> Hello.
>
> I made a "hello world" hidden service and I had to following message in the
> logs about exceeding launch limit. I have not seen this before. I had one
> onion for a while and added a second one recently - not sure if that
> matters as it is only complaining about the first one.
>
> I am not sure what / why it is exceeding launch limit, I would be grateful
> if someone could explain it to me.
>

Hmm,

this could be explained by a few different reasons and this could be a
hint that we should make this log a bit more silent instead of having it
bark loudly for no reason. The onion service should recover anyhow
(please let us know if it doesn't).

The most likely reason you are launching more intro circuits than
needed, is that your guard (or some other node) is overworked and it's
failing some of your circuits, so you are launching more of them in
hopes to get them across. There might be other possible reasons too.

If you give us info logs we might be able to get more details about this.
But it's probably not something you should worry about (and probably
something we should not alert you about).

Thanks!