/whois online feature now Online

Jason · Posted: Jul 21, 2003 6:13pm Post subject: /whois online feature now Online

What are your opinions on the new /whois feature?

Try it out here: http://searchirc.com/whois.php

Post comments and suggestions here.

iigor · Newbie Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 86 Location: Toronto, CA

everything seeems to be great :))
good job Jason!

Guest · Guest

It would be nice if the feature could attempt to look for non-exact matches, but of course that would require some sort of /who <someterm>* before the /whois process and probably wouldn't be worth it.

YonderBoY · none Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 3

hi
it may be noob opinion but i think its good idea to add 1 more drop down box to whois... with all network u have on list so user can type nick and select network from list.
If that not slow your bots Smile

Jason · Posted: Jul 22, 2003 7:17am Post subject:

There are a lot of things that can be done, I don't want to rule anything out -- but I must mention that IRC servers have a method to download all publicly available channels -- they do NOT have a way to download all publicly available nicknames. Because of this, nicknames are a completely different animal than channels, and cannot be done instantly like channel searches. They must be done in real time. We're trying out a full whois, but will look into anything that is feasible, scalable and is useful to the end user.

U · Eleet Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 521 Location: IRC

Doing this on every server-ouch, thats alot of bots and bandwith Smile

iigor · Newbie Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 86 Location: Toronto, CA

someday though the /whois feature will search all the nets
you always startout slowly Wink

ed · Posted: Jul 24, 2003 7:35pm Post subject:

iigor · Newbie Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 86 Location: Toronto, CA

grrr... u are all too negative. At first, Jason thought it's impossible. Then i talked him into /whois idea. It started with 4 nets. Now it's about 10. Come on... !!

ed · Posted: Jul 24, 2003 9:30pm Post subject:

It still will never scale to all 800+ networks.

Jason · Posted: Jul 24, 2003 9:34pm Post subject:

I have designed it so it can scale, but scaling to accommodate more users means more whois robots per network.

Second thing is, each robot takes up a few megs of ram. Lets just imagine each robot takes up 2 megs of ram (they take up more than that, but lets just low ball the number for a second). 2 megs of ram times 800 networks = 1.6 gigs of ram, just to load the robots.

SearchIRC server has a total of 2 gigs of ram. So all networks isn't something that will happen in the near future.

iigor · Newbie Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 86 Location: Toronto, CA

but it's still possible.. all u need is some more money Wink

ed · Posted: Jul 24, 2003 10:21pm Post subject:

U · Eleet Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 521 Location: IRC

heh, you think money grows on trees? Hes just talking ram. He hasn't even gone into the bandwith that would be required to have it on every network.

I don't know about you, but I only have 600 global. I think having him do this for my network at this point would be overkill. Maybe at 2500 global, but right now I don't feel I have enough users to be part of this.

YonderBoY · none Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 3

hi
if we are talking about 800+ networks example its not meaning to make 800 bots, making bot only for most visited networks, I know its 2 hard i have been trying to make it with eggdrop socked bots but it not slow your ram it will kill your bandwith Smile

for now whois is ok :arrow: