[IRCServices Coding] New IRC Services project

[Craig Edwards]

Dalnets services are frequently split from their uplink, due to the fact that they cant handle the load placed upon them :) A flat file db would operate much faster with reasonable hardware, no extra socket connections have to be established to make queries.

BotServs however i do agree with (i digress here) as i am a big fan of developing and using bots of all kinds ;)

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>On Thursday 19 December 2002 19:21, Craig Edwards wrote:
>> MySQL databases arent really a good idea for an ircservices server on a
>> large network - imagine the number of constant queries involved, it would
>> be a much busier situation than many large websites, you would have to make
>> a query for practically every RAW irc line from your uplink, e.g. for
>> checking access, etc. If not for every RAW line, but for every MODE, JOIN,
>> and PRIVMSG to a pseudoclient, and every connect, NICK, etc... Not to
>> mention that MySQL's transaction support isnt that good (MySQL's one and
>> only downfall) which would mean maybe a database such as PostgreSQL may
>> work much better in this case. I have my doubts about performance though.
>> Would connections to the database be persistent? Im not sure about the low
>> level workings of DBMS systems but for this kind of application the
>> connection would not need to be closed after each query, the slowdowns
>> would be unbelievably slow.
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>If i dont recall to incorrectly, DALnet's services are MySQL based.
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