[Konversation-devel] Difficulties building Konvi from git

[Eike Hein]

On 12/12/2011 11:23 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Bernd Buschinski
> <b.buschinski at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> Thanks for the report.
>> It is fixed again
>
> Thanks so much, Bernd. Not only did it build successfully after
> another git pull, but I am now back on freenode with no flooding, and
> no error messages!

Hi Valorie,

first of, sorry for the build trouble, that was caused by
a busted commit made by me. I had removed one of our
bundled scripts and blindly assumed that the build system
installed them by globbing instead of carrying an explicit
file list, which it did, hence the missing file error.

As for the flooding, I'm sure Eli already filled you in on
this, but it technically cannot be Konversation causing it
(which is now proven by having the same problem with X-Chat,
I guess) since it already aggressively throttles the out-
bound traffic to values safely below Freenode's flood
thresholds. You can issue the '/queuetuner' command to
bring up the tuning knobs for the queue emptying rates.

So what's likely happening is that Konvi sends data to ZNC,
throttled, but ZNC buffers and then sends it to Freenode in
bursts that exceed Freenode's flood thresholds. This should
be fixable in the ZNC configuration, assuming it has a
throttling system similar to Konvi's. The likelyhood of
this occuring may vary with different IRC clients since
their different patterns of sending data interact differently
with ZNC's buffer and sendout behavior, but the responsibi-
lity for the flooding itself ultimately rests at ZNC's feet.

What we're probably going to do to help you out though is
ask if we can get access to the ZNC instance at Kollide to
assist in fixing its configuration.


> Thanks again,
>
> Valorie

-- 
Best regards,
Eike Hein