> Is part of this network load also related to cached-descriptors periodic
> update?
Some. Relays by default won't fetch server descriptors but all clients
do. See the following for an effort to decrease the load...
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/dir-spec.txt#l1042
__
Hi all,
i've been looking that currently cached-descriptors account for more
than 4.2MB of flat file and 1.7MB of gzip compressed one.
If i understand correctly while chatting at tor dev meeting, there's a
certain amount of load of the Tor network given by the amount of clients
requesting network