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  • Re: Synchronet Multi User

    From Tracker1@1:103/705 to HusTler on Thursday, August 13, 2020 01:03:59
    On 7/12/2020 5:55 AM, HusTler wrote:

    Has Synchronet ever been tested with 10 or more users connected at the same time? Has IRC or any chat features been tested with 10 or more users? I'm curious to know how well Synchronet holds up with a large load of users online at the same time. I don't know how a SysOp could even get 10 or more users to connect at the same time to test it but I think it would be an interesting project. I would be curious to know what the min processor and ram requirements would be to handle let's say 20 users online at the same time without any lag.
    Just thinking out loud that's all. Maybe some SysOps ran Synchronet boards when IRC was craze and users were downloading and chatting all at the same time.

    ... For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

    Old message, but in the ~2003 time frame, I had dedicated chat hosts a
    couple hours a night, I think the most I had on the BBS was around 15 in
    the bbs group chat locally. There were a few local boards in the
    Phoenix area that had Synchronet chats at 8-12 nodes and that was on
    mid-90's hardware.

    IRC should be able to handle it fine, IIRC the nets route through VERT
    and there's often more than that in IRC at once. YMMV of course.

    --
    Michael J. Ryan
    tracker1 +o Roughneck BBS

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