Subj : Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
To   : Digital Man
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Nov 18 2025 08:17:26

-=> Digital Man wrote to Gamgee <=-

 DM>   Re: Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd
 DM>   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.  :-)

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

Ahhh, OK.  Great info and thank you for that.  I'm not having heavy JS 
activity here so that may explain things.

Appreciate your reply, as always.



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