Re: gac experiment

["Gael M ." <gael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just by curiosity, is it possible to have this patch to watch by ourself ?

How many people of that thread had the patch in their hands ?

Gael

On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 09:59:26PM +0100, Jochen Kaiser wrote:
> It's working perfectly for up to 1600 users here in Erlangen and on
> netsurf it's working, too. 
> 
> Please stop polemic accusses. Give us concrete numbers.
> 
> If it's just about carrying the discussion from #opers to this
> mailinglist - just stop it. There are more important things 
> right now to discuss then one branch of the ircd code. 
> 
> If there will be the holy ircnet patch someday which solves the
> colliding problem, we will happily use it instead of gac.
> 
> greetings,
> jochen "kind" kaiser
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 08:19:01PM +0100, Thomas Kuiper wrote:
> > Some might find this experience interesting, and I thought
> > I'd share it. It's about all these patches there are now to fix
> > network issues only cause of the #channel.
> > 
> > Not a long time ago, irc.webbernet.net decided to run
> > Guenthi's anti-collide patch (also known as gac). Only as a
> > fix way for getting rid of abusers.
> > 
> > It only last for about 10 minutes.  Why? because that's how
> > long it took the admin to figure that it was just not
> > working.  The amount of traffic generated for a server with
> > 4000 clients was just phenomenal, and caused more harm than
> > anything else.  And this was not even the latest version of
> > gac which generates even more traffic (for deops).  My
> > feeling is that it's enough traffic to cause another small
> > server to split.
> > 
> > just the facts...
> > 
> > Engerim
> > 
> 
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