I tried to use list command without going inside each channel, the server response just gave me 321 and 323, but did not give me 322 response to show all the channels. I had already used mIRC to join 3 channels before I used list in my code. When I first registered the server in my code, the server did response there were 3 channels formed. So what's the problem with using LIST. Another question, how can I list all the invisible channels and user count in each channel, if I can have operator priviledge. Thanks a lot. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Bin Duan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Tom Rons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 7:52 PM >Subject: Re:Re: Re:Re: [Coder-Com] server response time is too slow when >using LIST command > > >> I have an application, part of its functions is the chat. The chat system >has a couple of channels (more than 30), the application first goes into >each channel and count the people already in that channel, then show in one >page the total count in each channel. > >First of all, why do you join the channels to find out their member count? >A LIST provides channel name, channel member count, and topic per channel it >returns. You don't need to join all those channels, LIST already returns >the member count for each of them. > >When it comes to the actual list of channels: Maybe it would be more >interesting to use a database to store the list information, which can be >retrieved by a standalone program or bot every x time units and then stored >in the database. The end user application would then query the database >server, not the actual IRC server. Ok, the member counts won't always be >exact, but your irc server can't be attacked by people requesting the list >over and over and over ... > >> Then the user can select which channel he wants to join. So I can not bear >the response time from one channel to exceed 6 seconds. > >> >> >> c1----1.192 >> >> >> c2----4.076 >> >> >> c3----5.097 >> >> >> c4----6.059 >> >> >> c5----6.058 >> >> >> c6----6.059 >> >> >> c7----6.059 >> >> >> c8----6.058 > >I don't see that happening anywhere ... download an IRC client, connect, and >retrieve the list. Do you honestly see a difference between when the list >is retrieved from ircu, and when it is retrieved from the original ircd for >instance? You'd be the first person in my knowledge to actually notice a >difference (other then the fact that retrieving the entire list can take >some minutes if there are lots of channels, some ten thousands for instance. >At least you have the possibility to view the list here, try that on a >heavy-loaded 'original' ircd) > >> >> Do you know any other chat server which does not have this feature? such >as ircd-hybird... >> > >'ircd', the original one. Most modern ircds implement the delays because >they are considered to be useful for everyday use. > >> Thanks a lot >> >> Bin >> > > Regards, > > -- > Tom Rons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > (http://openircd.org/trons/) > > > >
