Performance with potential mass use

[F. Fox]

grarpamp wrote:
> Excluding bandwidth as that's probably the easiest
> to guesstimate [6x each user's use for onion2onion case].
> Assuming whatever typical usage patterns exist today,
> and expecting a partial shift to include more bandwidth
> intensive apps...
> 
> What sort of issues exist as each new set of say
> 1K/10K/100K/1000K users start using tor?
> 
> - Circuits tacked up funneling bits all the time?
> - Circuit churn?
> - Loads looking up directory info, HS descriptors?
> - Blowing out cpu, ram, disk, OS limits to crunch it all?
> - And anything else really, haven't much thought about it.
> 
> - How big is the impact of each affecting item?
> - What fixes may be on paper or in the pipeline?
> - Wikify this thread?
> 
> Kindof a general chat, no math proofs needed :)
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Simple - you'd need mass increases in the number of relays to handle 
mass usage. ;o)

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