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   Gamgee to Digital Man   
   Re: Using JSexec to run IRCd   
   18 Nov 25 08:17:26   
   
   TZUTC: -0600   
   MSGID: 58872.sync_sys@1:103/705 2d82a0b7   
   REPLY: 58870.sync_sys@1:103/705 2d821756   
   PID: Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/955e50fea Aug 10 2025 GCC 14.2.0   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.32-Linux master/ec8f7009f Nov 15 2025 GCC 12.2.0   
   BBSID: PALANTIR   
   CHRS: CP437 2   
   FORMAT: flowed   
   -=> 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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