Subj : Re: binkd using CPU 100%?
To   : Avon
From : Alpha
Date : Tue Sep 15 2020 09:34:43


On 09/15/2020 9:18 am Avon said...
 Av> On 14 Sep 2020 at 03:07p, Alpha pondered and said...
 Av>  Al> Noticed my BBS slowing way down, and running 'htop' shows me 
 Av>  Al> that 'binkd: client manager' is taking up 100% of the cpu. If I let 
 Av>  Al> it run long enough, it stacks up multiple duplicate processes as 
 Av>  Al> well. I'l running binkd from an .sh file -- from an hourly BBS event 
 Av>  Al> -- any idea what could cause it not to exit?
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 Av> I do get issues with a not the most up to date version of BinkD for 
 Av> Windows were by I end up with a too many servers message and it seems to 
 Av> fail to toss packets etc until I close it down and restart. It happens 
 Av> randomly and despite efforts to resolve by playing with settings I've 
 Av> never managed to sort a fix for it. Thing is it's not consistent and 
 Av> occurs randomly over time making it harder to troubleshoot :(

I couldn't figure it out--I compiled the latest from the source, and still kept getting those CPU spikes. So last night, I ended up transferring my BBS over to a Rpi, and used the "apt install binkd" version -- using all the same config files that I used on the Ubuntu machine -- and the problem went away! 

Enigma runs very smooth on a Pi, and now that the CPU issues are gone, even smoother! Plus, I can kill my virtual host and save $6 a month :)

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