#28624: Should we remember dormant state on restart? --------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: arma | Owner: (none) Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Medium | Milestone: Tor: 0.4.0.x-final Component: Core Tor/Tor | Version: Severity: Normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Actual Points: Parent ID: | Points: 2 Reviewer: | Sponsor: --------------------------+------------------------------------
Comment (by nickm): Replying to [comment:4 arma]: > So would that mean that by default, Tor never remembers its dormant state across restarts? (Or more precisely, never reacts to dormancy info in the state file on startup.) > > That would seem to not cover the "some linux distro includes a Tor client package by default" use case, right? It's more oriented towards specific Tor installs that know they want to be special? Right. We could change the default later on, but I thought that for now, we're better off making this an off-by-default feature. On IRC, you said: > i am a bit suspicious also of the 'auto' choice being 'yes if my state file is from yesterday > because we do have a new bit of info from yesterday, and that new bit is "i just started tor" > and often, when i start tor, it's because now i plan to use it To clarify, the "auto" choice is "be active if I was active when I shut down, ''and'' I shut down recently". Or if you prefer "be dormant if the state file was old, or if I was dormant in the old state file." I'm also concerned about whether this is the best approach, but I think that other choices won't work for the use cases we have. If every startup makes tor active, then we won't actually have time to go dormant. I guess another possibility might be to remember the total number of hours Tor has been running without user activity, and let that build up cumulatively over invocations. In this case, "auto" might mean simply "remember if we were active", and we might additionally track in our state file the cumulative number of minutes that Tor has run without seeing user activity. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28624#comment:5> Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/> The Tor Project: anonymity online
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