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- From: hkantola@cc.Helsinki.FI (Heikki Kantola)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: IRC request
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 23:57:22 GMT
- Organization: Department of General Wizardry, Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork
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- Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de> provided the following
- for the eyes of comp.sys.amiga.networking:
- >m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) writes:
- >
- >>The network, memory and CPU loads involved in running an IRC server are also
- >>pretty enormous, which makes the idea of doing such a thing on an Amiga
- >>uneconomical as well as impractical.
- >
- >Enormous ? I beg to differ. There is nothing in an IRC server that prevents it
- >from running even on an a1200hd class machine.
-
- Well, perhaps not enormous but considerable amount of resources ircd
- takes. This is from SparcServer 10/30 running Solaris 2.4 and 19 clients
- and one uplink connected to the server:
- PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
- 11162 irc 13 0 12M 11M sleep 59:38 3.68% 3.68% ircd
-
- >The real problem is stability. You do not want to risk to run arbitrary other
- >programs on the same machine.
-
- Yes indeed, and "wasting" an Amiga to be just a non-interactive server
- isn't IMHO very attractive option...
-
- --
- Heikki Kantola aka Hezu@IRC, /// IhmiselΣmΣ ei ole ollenkaan
- Computer Linguistics Student /// niin monimutkaista kuin miltΣ
- at the University of Helsinki \\\/// se nΣyttΣΣ - se on paljon
- E-Mail: Heikki.Kantola@Helsinki.FI\/// monimutkaisempaa.
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