On 18 Apr 2006, at 12:38 PM, Michael Holstein wrote: > When starting TOR (as a client), it can take 10-20 minutes to start > "normally" .. but if I do "rm -r ~/.tor/cached-*" it starts in 20 > seconds. Sounds like your machine to me... it takes under a second to start here. > > Why is this "cached information" such a hindrance? > > /mike. >