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    From Rixter@VERT/RICKSBBS to all on Wed Jul 24 15:03:32 2024
    Being new to the IRC thing I was wondering how much a pull on resources the IRC connections are to the BBS? I want to have some connections regardless. I am running on a laptop and was not sure how much it could handle. Seems to be working fine. I noticed once I had about 30 IRC connections and thought is was running sluggish so I read the IRC wiki and changed to 100 to 10 and that 'seems' to work better. I left the other settings alone. Maybe it was a coincidence? What do you use for your maximum settings? Or have you never changed them? Not sure how much it works a BBS so tell me if I am wrong. I am reading more on IRC. This is interesting to me. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

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  • From nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to Rixter on Wed Jul 24 15:12:13 2024
    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:03:32 -0400
    "Rixter" (VERT/RICKSBBS) <VERT/RICKSBBS!Rixter@endofthelinebbs.com>
    wrote:
    Being new to the IRC thing I was wondering how much a pull on
    resources the IRC connections are to the BBS? I want to have some
    connections regardless. I am running on a laptop and was not sure how
    much it could handle. Seems to be working fine. I noticed once I had
    about 30 IRC connections and thought is was running sluggish so I
    read the IRC wiki and changed to 100 to 10 and that 'seems' to work
    better. I left the other settings alone. Maybe it was a coincidence?
    What do you use for your maximum settings? Or have you never changed
    them? Not sure how much it works a BBS so tell me if I am wrong. I am
    reading more on IRC. This is interesting to me. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

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    þ Synchronet þ Ricks BBS - RICKSBBS.SYNCHRO.NET
    If you don't have the resources to run an irc server, you can point
    your users at irc.synchro.net and it'll pick one of the active servers
    in the dns alias.
    irc should be pretty lightweight. It's taking 0.03% of my CPU.
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    telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Rixter on Wed Jul 24 13:02:46 2024
    Re: IRC connections
    By: Rixter to all on Wed Jul 24 2024 03:03 pm

    Being new to the IRC thing I was wondering how much a pull on resources the IRC connections are to the BBS? I want to have some connections

    I think IRC is fairly lightweight. It shouldn't have a significant impact on your system to affect the BBS. For the past couple years, I've been leaving HexChat connected to IRC (for the #synchronet channel) and haven't noticed any noticeable performance impacts.

    connections and thought is was running sluggish so I read the IRC wiki and

    What is this IRC wiki?

    Nightfox

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  • From Rixter@VERT/RICKSBBS to All on Fri Apr 11 15:19:23 2025
    I notice after a reboot the IRC leafs slowly drift back in.Is there a way to encourage them faster? Make that tree grow faster? I have tried to leave my MRC Chat open on one of my less used nodes. This is unrelated to the IRC leaf question. I can leave the MRC up a while (2 hours) and everytime it causes synchronet control panel to crash at some point. Is there a stand alone program outside of Synchronet's MRC chat module I can watch the chats from? I enjoy watching the chat slowly stream by during the day and night. I realize it is probably just my old machine I am running on. I had thought of seeing if I could just log into another bbs and watch it, but I am not sure about how others set their session times. I have no time limits, you can stay on mine all day if you want. I suspect others are not set up that way. I want to watch the chat in the lounge. #lounge.
    Thank you,
    Rixter
    telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23
    http://ricksbbs.synchro.net:8080
    Madison,NC

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