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34 <PRE>On Thursday, April
11,
2002, at
03:
06 PM, Kelmar K. Firesun wrote:
36 >><i> <<A HREF=
"http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices-coding">griever at t2n.org
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37 </I>>>>><i> I still haven't heard of a _real_ network with
100k
38 </I>>>>><i> users, but even
40 </I>>>><i> You've never heard of dalnet?
42 </I>>><i> I wasn't aware they had
100k simultaneous users, but then
43 </I>>><i> I haven't
44 </I>>><i> gone there in a while.
46 </I>><i> Current local users:
10288 Max:
25358
47 </I>><i> Current global users:
120185 Max:
135705
49 </I>><i> I don't think you'd want to go back to Dalnet anytime soon:
50 </I>><i> -twisted.ma.us.dal.net- *** Autokilled for [exp/ident] Enable
51 </I>><i> ident in your
52 </I>><i> client. Send email to
<A HREF=
"http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices-coding">exploits at dal.net
</A> with a subject of
53 </I>><i> [exp/ident] for
55 </I>><i> details. [AKILL ID:
969137152K-a] (
2002/
04/
11 14.58)
57 </I>><i> *Tries not to go on tirade about how using IDENT for security is a Bad
60 Don't worry; it's not being used for security.
62 >>>><i> Also, it's worth noting that Services' I/O engine has
63 </I>>>>><i> been completely
64 </I>>>>><i> redesigned for
5.0, so any comparisons done with
4.x don't count.
65 </I>>>>><i>
66 </I>>>><i> Actually, if I remember correctly
5.0 was slower. May be
67 </I>>>><i> because of added
68 </I>>>><i> features
70 </I>>><i> As mentioned above, commands have more overhead (mostly
71 </I>>><i> because they
72 </I>>><i> use callbacks), so any comparisons done with
4.x don't count
73 </I>>><i> even more.
75 </I>><i> That and loadable modules, which would have the additional overhead of
76 </I>><i> context switching. *shudder*
78 </I>>>><i> It's of point to note that both versions of ircservices sent a
79 </I>>>><i> lot more
80 </I>>>><i> to the server. Any idea what this could be?
82 </I>>><i> Because they're friendlier and want to chat with the server more?
84 While we're on this topic, I took a look at Cygnus'
0.0.2 socket code.
85 It appears to use a blocking socket, and I see possible issues with
86 receive buffering. Did it handle everything it was supposed to?
88 More details really are needed for decent comparisons.
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