[tor-talk] Question About "1000 circuit times"

[Jim]

Hi,

I've just installed Tor version 0.2.3.4-alpha (git-5f4f727d58daa194).  I 
restarted Tor and checked my logs just to make sure there were no nasty 
surprises.  Everything seemed to be fine except I was surprised to see 
the following:

Sep 20 17:38:22 host Tor[5667]: Catching signal TERM, exiting cleanly.
Sep 20 17:38:33 host Tor[9022]: Based on 1000 circuit times, it looks 
like we don't need to wait so long for circuits to finish. We will now 
assume a circuit is too slow to use after waiting 37 seconds.
Sep 20 17:38:33 host Tor[9022]: Parsing GEOIP file 
/usr/local/share/tor/geoip.

So immediately after starting, the new instance of Tor is reporting 
results based on 1000 circuit times.  Is it using data from the old 
instance of Tor, is this message in error, or what?

Regards,
Jim