On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:03:32 -0400
"Rixter" (VERT/RICKSBBS) 
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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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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