[Konversation-devel] Difficulties building Konvi from git

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Eike Hein <hein at kde.org> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for that hint! The flooding problem seems rather random - I
wonder if Freenode changes their values depending on their activity
level, or some servers have different values, or something.

> 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.

I'll forward this to the Kollide sysadmins and ask them to talk to you
about this; thanks!

>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Valorie
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Eike Hein

Thanks again,

Valorie
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