Re: [cobalt-users] IRC server for RAQ3?

[vic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On 4 Aug 2000, at 13:55, Coaxil wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was just wondering if anyone here knows of an IRC server that can be
> run on a RAQ3 and what experiences had they had with it?

At chatcircuit, we have run irc servers for over 4 years now.  First 
on BSDi 4.01, then a Raq3 w/64 megs of ram, and now on a Raq3i 
w/128 megs of ram.

The ircd we use on the raq is Unreal IRCD (we are in now way 
affiliated with Unreal)

You can get the IRCD and other info at the following addys

http://unreal.sourceforge.net/

http://unreal.sourceforge.net/download.html

http://download.sourceforge.net/unreal/Unreal3.0-Morrigan.tar.gz

<quote> -----> http://unreal.sourceforge.net/download.html
UnrealIRCd is an IRC server based on the branch of IRCu called 
Dreamforge, formerly used by the DALnet IRC Network. 
Since development started on it (around May 1999) many new 
features has been added, modified, and many bugs fixed. 
Unreal runs both on *nix platforms, Amiga & Windows 95/98/2k/NT. 
Some features to mention: Channel Halfops, No-color channel 
mode, Strip-colors channel mode, channelmode +q & +a - protect
 modes, Oper and Admin only channels, exception bans, Nokicks 
mode (channel and user), Flood limiter, Channel links, Host cloaking,
  Net* Tech and Co-Admin modes, Whois notifies, Foreign connects 
monitor, Oper suspend, G:Lines, T:Lines, channel restriction 
  (people can only go to these channels if enabled), Trojan/DCC 
Deny, RPING/RPONG, Sethost family, Token in server<->server 
etc. 
 FDlists/High Traffic Mode, SOCKS check on connect, Speeded up 
server synchs, limited WebTV Client support, /vhost, and many 
dreamforge optimations. 
UnrealIRCd is aimed to be an advanced, not an easy IRCd. If you 
need support or need to ask questions you can go on IRC, /server 
irc.flirt.org and join channel #UnrealIRCd. 
Or e-mail at unreal-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to get it :)
</quote>

At unreal.sourceforge.net there are links to Services for the Unreal 
IRCD.  I cannot give any further info on the list of links for IRC 
Services ( http://unreal.sourceforge.net/links.html).
The services we have compiled and updated over the last four years 
are from www.esper.net 
Our services consist of:

Chanserv -- channel registration and management
Nickserv -- nick name registration and management
Memoserv -- memo service for registered nick users
Operserv -- server admin functions for IRCops

You can download the services at:
ftp://ftp.esper.net/services/

Our irc server is at irc.chatcircuit.com .... a subdomain from 
www.chatcircuit.com

As far as installation goes, I highly suggest you test after you 
compile.  All IRC's have some mem leak, and Unreal IRC does as 
well.. about 5k per user.

I also suggest that you do not put Unreal or any IRCD on a heavily 
loaded server.  At this time we host 25 domains - four of which have 
medium traffic.

One way we have cut down on the overhead is by using php as 
much as possible...and suggesting the same to our clients.  If you 
have Ultimate Bulletin Board on your server, you will NOT be able to 
run IRCD as well.  UBB is too much of a resource hog. We are 
currently installing Phorum Message Board.

The following is a screen capture of TOP from our server showing 
unreal.old and services.old and the load on the server which is 
minimal.  Our colocation moved the server three days ago so it was 
rebooted, we had 90 days since we go this server, with no ircd 
crashes.

10:53pm  up 3 days, 11 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
43 processes: 42 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.5% user,  1.1% system,  0.0% nice, 98.2% idle
Mem:  128180K av, 116504K used,  11676K free,  52036K shrd,  
24668K buff
Swap: 131536K av,   4880K used, 126656K free                 58324K 
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU 
%MEM   TIME COMMAND
23033 root      15   0  1000 1000   820 R       0  0.9  0.7   0:02 top
  734 admin      3   0  3536 3492   564 S       0  0.3  2.7   6:10 
unreal.old
  736 admin      1   0  1852 1852   364 S       0  0.1  1.4   1:51 
services.old
22489 httpd      1   0  6712 5296  4252 S       0  0.1  4.1   0:00 httpd

If I can be of assistance to you or anyone in need of further irc info  
please email me offlist webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Regards,
Vic Chisnell