🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan8.161423.21615@nwnexus.WA.COM> ralphs@halcyon.com
(Ralph Sims) writes:

>system@netlink.cts.com (System Administrator) writes:
>
>>I'd really like for our users to be able to make posts with
>>more than 253 lines, without having to resort to giving them
>>access to vi (or somesuch).  Anyone have any easy tweeks to
>>the code to fix this, without hosing something else?
>
>The buflines parameter in the static file controls this.  Be careful
>that you don't exceed memory requirements--the larger the number of
>buflines, the more memory you'll use, and the more likely the system
>will not work as expected.

Under Unix, the impact is not large.  I have buflines set to 1536,
1500 newsgroups in my active file, and some other non-configurable
internal tables cranked up some; the process size under Xenix/386 is
still under 400k.  This is 1/20th the maximum process size on my
system.  I suppose it might be a problem on a '286 Unix system that's
starved for memory, or on a Tandy 6000, but if you're using one of
these, you need to have your head examined for more kinds of insanity
than just using Waffle. :-)

Waffle also seems to run fairly well on a system busy with VM paging;
it doesn't need to go scratch 'n sniff every second byte when you do
anything, unlike some of the other programs I use.  (Unfortunately,
one exception to this is the initial load-- it can take a long, long
time on a system busy with stuff, and I've often seen users drop
the line thinking the BBS was dead.)

  --jh
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