Re: lightweight Chat client/server?

2010-08-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/08/2010 21:18, Bill Moran wrote: We've been using Jabber for several years internally. Works well and has clients for just about every OS I know of. Don't know if it could be considered lightweight, though, since it requires an SQL server on the backend. If you already have another

Re: lightweight Chat client/server?

2010-08-04 Thread Matias
El 03/08/10 22:12, Depo Catcher escribió: I have a combination of Spark (windows client) and Open Fire (FreeBSD server, actually Java) for my lan. We've used this setup for years, but the OpenFire server takes up ~500 + MB. Anyways, we were looking for something a bit smaller. We just need to

lightweight Chat client/server?

2010-08-03 Thread Depo Catcher
I have a combination of Spark (windows client) and Open Fire (FreeBSD server, actually Java) for my lan. We've used this setup for years, but the OpenFire server takes up ~500 + MB. Anyways, we were looking for something a bit smaller. We just need to send text messages to LAN users (less

Re: lightweight Chat client/server?

2010-08-03 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Depo Catcher depocatc...@gmail.com: I have a combination of Spark (windows client) and Open Fire (FreeBSD server, actually Java) for my lan. We've used this setup for years, but the OpenFire server takes up ~500 + MB. Anyways, we were looking for something a bit smaller.

Re: lightweight Chat client/server?

2010-08-03 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:12:05 -0500 Depo Catcher depocatc...@gmail.com wrote: I have a combination of Spark (windows client) and Open Fire (FreeBSD server, actually Java) for my lan. We've used this setup for years, but the OpenFire server takes up ~500 + MB. Anyways, we were looking for

Re: lightweight Chat client/server?

2010-08-03 Thread Charles Richards
You can tune the openfire JVM configuration to run in 256MB of RAM, possibly less with only 6 users. You also do not need to use an external DB for it - it can run with it's own embedded DB. It's probably the easiest to install / configure Jabber client I've come across, but there's a good

Re: lightweight Chat client/server?

2010-08-03 Thread Depo Catcher
Thanks. I guess I should started with that first. It's a nice program, so if I can reduce it's load a bit that would be great. I tried setting Xmx to 16M and removed the '-server' from the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/openfire script openfire_javargs=-Xmx16M ps shows that it took the setting: