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- From: oahvenla@hyppynaru.cs.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: IRC request
- Date: 01 Mar 1996 19:38:35 +0200
- Organization: What, me, organised?
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- In-reply-to: c948374@oersted.gbar.dtu.dk's message of 1 Mar 1996 14:53:43 GMT
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- In article <4h731n$bj5@news.uni-c.dk> c948374@oersted.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Lambertsen) writes:
- >He wanted an *Amiga* IRC server, not a Unix one. Read the posting
- >again. Unix HTTP servers also rely on fork(), yet we have Amiga HTTP
- >server software, and several web servers are run on Amigas.
-
- ircd is a mess. You'd have to be a real masochist to want to rewrite
- it so that it'd work without fork().. Whereas a HTTP server is a
- pretty simple thing, and any decent server these days does NOT rely on
- fork(), because that's too slow.
-
- >??? They seem to be overloaded. More servers would make it possible to
- >distribute the load.
-
- Yeah, whatever. Now consider how much extra load a netsplit/netjoin
- exerts on the other servers (suddenly 2000 clients log off and
- rejoin). Then imagine how often a stupid 040-based server would die
- under the load when Pentiums and AlphaStations can't keep up.
-
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