Load Balancing

Alexander W. Janssen alexander.janssen at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 19:09:03 UTC 2007


On 9/21/07, Nick Mathewson <nickm at freehaven.net> wrote:
> Short answer: Tor tries to group many streams on a single circuit.  If
> we didn't, that would be way too much PK.

Means, if the browser opens up 6 instances to grab stuff from a site,
Tor consolidates all requests into a single circuit?

Makes sense from a performance point of view.

> yrs,
> Nick Mathewson

Alex.

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"I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent
millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it
should be stopped."
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