new TOR seems excessively chatty

[Freemor]

hello,

  I recently upgraded to"tor 0.1.2.13-2~dapper" and although it works
very nicely it seems very "chatty". by chatty I mean download 200+ KB
every minute from DIR servers. That's gonna add up to a lot of traffic
on my ISP account that has a bit cap (60 GB/mo so not worried too much).
is there some way to curtail this "chattiness".. if not I'll have to
stop leaving tor running all the time.


Thanks in advance
Freemor

excerpts from /var/log/tor/log

May 05 01:36:47.667 [info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): Received
networkstatus objects (size 209145) from server '128.138.207.48:9030'
May 05 01:36:47.708 [info] router_set_networkstatus(): Not replacing
network-status from directory server "dizum" at 194.109.206.212:80
(published 2007-05-01 19:33:17); we have a newer one (published
2007-05-01 19:34:23) for this authority.
May 05 01:37:48.590 [info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): Received
networkstatus objects (size 209145) from server '88.191.38.143:9030'
May 05 01:37:48.628 [info] router_set_networkstatus(): Not replacing
network-status from directory server "dizum" at 194.109.206.212:80
(published 2007-05-01 19:33:17); we have a newer one (published
2007-05-01 19:34:23) for this authority.
May 05 01:38:55.321 [info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): Received
networkstatus objects (size 209145) from server '213.114.108.251:9030'
May 05 01:38:55.363 [info] router_set_networkstatus(): Not replacing
network-status from directory server "dizum" at 194.109.206.212:80
(published 2007-05-01 19:33:17); we have a newer one (published
2007-05-01 19:34:23) for this authority.


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Freemor <freemor at yahoo.ca>
Freemor <freemor at rogers.com>

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