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  • Uneasy calm...

    From poindexter FORTRAN@poindexter.fortran@REALITY.remove-k5r-this to All on Thu Oct 1 10:31:00 2020
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    I did my usual quarterly BBS shutdown, fresh backup, copying
    sbbs_dev.zip and sbbs_run.zip to the BBS, unzipping the exec, web, and
    xtrn directories, checked through the ctrl directory changes, copied
    the contents over my live directories, and restarted everything.

    And it all works.

    Normally, I need to do quite a bit of tweaking - everything feels a
    bit faster, too.

    I'm looking forward to playing with tickfix, I didn't see the
    git update notification until I read through the update log online...

    My next tempting of fate is going to be to compare what's in git
    versus what's in my directories and delete any unused crap - my
    install dates back to 2006 or so, and there's a ton of cruft in /exec,
    remnants from ecwebv2, v3, and so on...


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  • From Digital Man@digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-11i9-this to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Oct 1 12:09:38 2020
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    To: poindexter FORTRAN
    Re: Uneasy calm...
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Thu Oct 01 2020 10:31 am

    I did my usual quarterly BBS shutdown, fresh backup, copying
    sbbs_dev.zip and sbbs_run.zip to the BBS, unzipping the exec, web, and
    xtrn directories, checked through the ctrl directory changes, copied
    the contents over my live directories, and restarted everything.

    And it all works.

    Awesome. One thing I've noticed and heard reported is that the default Loadable Modules don't always auto-populate in persistent way, so you might want to double-check SCFG->System->Loadable Modules and that they're how you would expect.

    Normally, I need to do quite a bit of tweaking - everything feels a
    bit faster, too.

    There were some performance improvements since v3.17, in particular around message bases (index loading and such), but I can't think of any optimizations that would improve the performance of "everything". On Windows? I guess that could be the dynamically-loaded CRTLs. Dunno.

    I'm looking forward to playing with tickfix, I didn't see the
    git update notification until I read through the update log online...

    My next tempting of fate is going to be to compare what's in git
    versus what's in my directories and delete any unused crap - my
    install dates back to 2006 or so, and there's a ton of cruft in /exec, remnants from ecwebv2, v3, and so on...

    Yeah, some of that cruft is still in the git repo too. It's mostly harmless.

    digital man

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@poindexter.fortran@REALITY.remove-o6g-this to Digital Man on Fri Oct 2 08:17:00 2020
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    To: Digital Man
    Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-


    There were some performance improvements since v3.17, in particular
    around message bases (index loading and such), but I can't think of any optimizations that would improve the performance of "everything". On Windows? I guess that could be the dynamically-loaded CRTLs. Dunno.

    The only problem I've run into is a crash of sbbs_ctrl.exe when
    running the web server with the HSTS_SAFE option. I'd reported it
    before; let me know what more information I could provide.

    This is with the 9/30 zips, Windows 10 1903, 32-bit. I just got the
    prompt for 2004, I'm loading that update now.



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