Subj : Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
To   : Gamgee
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Nov 17 2025 20:51:44

  Re: Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
  By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Mon Nov 17 2025 05:08 pm

 >  Ni> It's interesting of other Synchronet sysops in Windows hadn't been
 >  Ni> seeing periodic crashes, but the fact that a SBBS check utility exists
 >  Ni> for Windows seems to suggest for me that other Synchronet sysops saw
 >  Ni> the same issue and someone decided to make a utility to re-run it if
 >  Ni> it's not running.
 >
 >  Ni> I wondered if the crashes were due to something I was doing in some of
 >  Ni> my JS mods for Synchronet, but it seemed to random to easily track
 >  Ni> down.  And now that I'm running my BBS in Linux, I feel like it hasn't
 >  Ni> been a noticeable issue anymore for me.
 >
 > Interesting.
 >
 > I guess it's just a built-in Windows issue.  :-)

More likely, the issue(s) is/are with the JS engine we use and they're more prevalent on 32-bit platforms (e.g. Win32) or just Windows in general. Hard to say as the engine is very old now and doesn't support 64-bit Windows builds, so a bit hard to compare and confirm. In any case, we'll upgrade the JS engine someday and hopefully those unexplained crashes (which we *do* see on 64-bit *nix builds under heavy JS activity) will go away.
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                                            digital man (rob)

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