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<font size="4">I wanted to update WA9PIE-2 to the latest test
version but I left it a bit late as this weekend seems to be
rather busy on the Ham Radio front. <br>
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I've had a bit of negative feedback from a couple of people
recently to the effect of "programs written in interpreters like
perl are buggy and slow". So I thought I'd just share these
statistics with you:<br>
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This DXSpider node runs in a 2GB DigitalOcean droplet with 1CPU
and IIRC 25GB of disk. <br>
<br>
</font><font size="4"><font face="monospace">sh/cl<br>
Nodes: 28/415 Users [Loc/Clr]: 1004/5612 Max: 1005/5615 -
Uptime: 4d 1h 14m<br>
WA9PIE-2><br>
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<pre><font size="4">top - 15:06:36 up 227 days, 7:34, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.15, 0.16
Tasks: 73 total, 1 running, 72 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 21.8 us, 1.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 69.3 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 1.0 si, 6.6 st
MiB Mem : 1997.9 total, 520.9 free, 369.0 used, 1108.0 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 0.0 total, 0.0 free, 0.0 used. 1425.0 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
25618 sysop 20 0 220.2m 212.8m 10.0m S 28.7 10.7 530:06.37 perl </font>
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<font size="4">Not bad for a program written in an </font><font
size="4"><font size="4">"old fashioned" </font>i</font><font
size="4"><font size="4">nterpreted language called perl</font>
servicing > 1000 users and 28 peer nodes in real time in 220MB
of memory.<br>
<br>
73 de Dirk G1TLH<br>
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