> >Interesting solution...but it doesn't actually help you reduce the number
> >of open fds. Most users are connected for long-haul periods; simply
> >reducing the max connections for a particular class without actually
> >disconnecting some users won't free up more than, say, 5 fds. Also,
> >there is currently no statistic kept on how long the last PING took to
> >be returned, but that is a problem I have a possible solution for, and
> >just haven't had time to code up (or verify interoperability).
>
> This is not true, when a server is carrying thousands of clients , the
> turnover is *high*. I have tried the concept I described already in a live
> situation manually, by editing the Y: lines and rehashing, and it does work.
>
> From the top of my head it took between 5 and 10 minutes to lose 500
> clients, on a server loaded with 5000 clients.
Ah, interesting, I stand corrected. Perhaps one of these days we should
overhaul the statistics-gathering code in ircu...
> PS: somebody needs to set a proper Reply-To: header for this mailing list.
...making it more difficult to reply privately if need be.
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