BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: Re: C Origins De: fusion Data: Mon, 25 May 2026 17:07:00 +0000 ----------------------------------------------------------- On 25 May 2026, Shitty said the following... Sh> MR> > Thanks and I am going to give it a try. It sucks getting timed out Sh> MR> > on BBSs that have inactivity timeouts. (Doesn't it seem like that Sh> MR> > shouldn't be a thing these days?) Sh> MR> Sh> MR> events have to run and people can't hang online all day. Sh> Sh> Like what though? Updates that require reboot? at least for old BBSes, they might wait until the nodes are empty to do some tasks.. for example, what happens when you import a bunch of messages and delete a bunch of messages (say, to keep below a sysop-chosen 1000 message threshold) while a person is currently reading messages might be undefined. some bbses needed an empty node because every node was on a separate machine that couldn't multitask.. the maintenance needed to run somewhere. while the machine they run on can multitask easily they're still programmed that way.. yes this is all outdated. the concept of nodes, time limits, ratios, etc. all seem archaic to me. for example: "why does a user need to idle on my bbs all day?" why not? people think of a connection like a string.. the bbs holding one end and the user holding the other. like it's a physical thing. it's more like me handing someone a slip of paper and saying "we're connected" and then walking away for a few hours and coming back and saying "do you still have that slip of paper? i'd like to write some more on it" or put another way, the BBS could remember there's a connection, the user remembers they're connected. but your cable modem doesn't. every router between the two doesn't. there's nothing there, nor does anything have to be sent or received. so what we're left with is how much does it cost to 'remember' this connection is active (Linux)? ~2-8KB.. so between 2048 and 8192 potentially active connected nodes idling.. per 16MB of ram -_- --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32) * Origin: cold fusion - cfbbs.net - grand rapids, mi ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]